Social Textures of Western Civilization: The Lower Depths. Volume I.

Author / Editor
Cherniavsky, Michael, and Arthur J. Slavin, eds.

Title
Social Textures of Western Civilization: The Lower Depths. Volume I.

Published
Waltham, Mass.: Xerox College Publishing, 1972.

Physical Description
xvii, 411 pp.

Description
Textbook anthology for use in history classrooms, combining classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources with modern assessments of the status, activities, and treatments of people of lower classes. In a section called "Ideal Types in Traditional Society" includes lines 1-714 of GP in David Wright's modern prose translation, with brief notes.

Contributor
Slavin Arthur J., ed.
Wright David, trans.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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