A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Texts & Contexts
- Author / Editor
- Amtower, Laurel, and Jacqueline Vanhoutte, eds
A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Texts & Contexts
- Published
- Buffalo, N.Y.: Broadview Press, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 480 pp.
- Description
- Readings in social and cultural history for classroom purposes, arranged in eight sections: politics and ideology, social structures, daily life, religious life and prayer, knighthood and war, reading and education, sciences and medicine, and international influences and exchanges. Each section includes a general introduction, followed by ten to fifteen texts and documents (usually excerpted), introduced individually and in Modern English translation. Throughout, the introductions link the texts and documents to details of Chaucer's works, with reference to those of his contemporaries.
- Contributor
- Vanhoutte, Jacqueline, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.