Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520
- Author / Editor
- Dyer, Christopher.
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520
- Published
- Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 297 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.
- Description
- Bridging the social and economic histories of medieval England, Dyer examines the inequalities of English society as inherent rather than as economically shaped among the upper classes, townsmen, and peasants. GP offers criticism of a simplistic social model "in a complex and sinful world."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.