English Life in Chaucer's Day

Author / Editor
Hart, Roger.

Title
English Life in Chaucer's Day

Published
London: Wayland; New York: George Putnam's Sons, 1973.

Physical Description
128 pp.; b&w illus. and color plates

Description
Illustrated social history of late-medieval England, with literary examples drawn from CT and contemporaneous literature, with visual reproductions from various manuscripts, including the Ellesmere manuscript and printed facsimiles. Arranged topically, with table of dates and costs of living, plus a glossary of terms.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Manuscripts and Textual Studies