Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England.

Description: Frames and analyzes the pilgrims of CT in terms of the social contexts surrounding their professions in Chaucer's lifetime and the antecedent few decades, interestingly moving directly against perceived social ordering to do so. Begins with the rural pilgrims before moving to the more urban, then the religious, then the military. Pilgrims' encapsulations of aspects of later medieval English life, both observed and contemporaneously figured, are used to reaffirm Chaucer's understanding of the breadth of the societies in which he lived.