Chaucer's England
- Author / Editor
- Childress, Diana.
Chaucer's England
- Published
- North Haven, Conn. : Linnet, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 137 pp. : 22 b&w illus.
- Description
- An introduction to the social, political, and intellectual history of Chaucer's age, aimed at a general audience. Individual chapters pertain to fourteenth-century England and its relations with the Continent, social hierarchy, "cracks" in the social hierarchy, tumultuous events, science and higher learning, agriculture and trade, and family life. A number of charts and excurses provide clear, simplified information on various subtopics. Makes recurrent references to Chaucer's life and works, especially the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.