The 1390s: The Empty Throne
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
The 1390s: The Empty Throne
- Published
- Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman, eds. Fins de Sicle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996), pp. 7-37.
- Description
- Explores how late-medieval English people regarded their age: as a time growing old and verging on cataclysm, especially as reflected in social unrest and the deposition of Richard II. Includes a number of references to and quotations from Chaucer and contemporary authors and historical records.
- Alternative Title
- Fins de Sicle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life.