A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Texts & Contexts

Author / Editor
Amtower, Laurel, and Jacqueline Vanhoutte, eds

Title
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.