England: Literature and Society

Author / Editor
Rigby, Stephen H.

Title
England: Literature and Society

Published
Stephen H. Rigby, ed. A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 497-520.

Description
Rigby explores how a variety of Middle English texts reflect and reinforce the normative ideologies of class and gender in late medieval England. Contempt for the world helped to assert social hierarchies, justify inequalities, and quell tensions. Cites several works by Chaucer, with recurrent references to ParsT.

Alternative Title
A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Parson and His Tale