The World of Walls: The Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Author / Editor
Brooks, Polly Schoyer, and Nancy Zinsser Walworth.

Title
The World of Walls: The Middle Ages in Western Europe.

Published
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.

Physical Description
256 pp.; b&w maps and illus.

Description
Social history of western medieval Europe from the "Barbarian Invasions" to "The Last of the Middle Ages," presented for young adults. The final section of the book (pp. 221-46) focuses on Chaucer, imaginatively reconstructing his daily life and biography, with recurrent comments on his literary works, especially CT.

Contributor
Walworth, Nancy Zinsser.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life
Canterbury Tales--General