The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
- Author / Editor
- Cantor, Norman F.
The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era
- Published
- New York: Free Press, 2004.
- Physical Description
- 262 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- A social and political history of the "aristocracy of the fourteenth century through the life and times of John of Gaunt." Chapter ten, "Chaucer" (pp. 203-15), summarizes the poet's career, Gaunt's role in his life, and Gaunt's possible reactions to his poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life