Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays on Medieval Literature and Thought.

Author / Editor
Newstead, Helaine, ed.

Title
Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays on Medieval Literature and Thought.

Published
Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1968.

Description
An anthology of previously published materials, including selections from Boccaccio (on the Black Death) and Froissart (on the Peasants' Revolt), essays on cultural backgrounds to the fourteenth century (imagination, technology, science, courtly love, and allegorical interpretations), essays on Chaucer (dream vision, GP, MilT, ShT, and Mel), Virginia Woolf's comments on Chaucer and the Pastons, and essays on Langland and the Gawain/Pearl-poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism