Chaucer, the Customs, and the Hainault Connection
- Author / Editor
- Garbaty, Thomas J.
Chaucer, the Customs, and the Hainault Connection
- Published
- John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 95-102.
- Description
- Chaucer needs no protection from students who question the more negative aspects of his life. Though Chaucer was "no saint," his life is devoid of anything particularly shameful. The Hainault connection simply gave Chaucer leisure and security under which his poetic genius blossomed.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2 (1986)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life.