Chaucer's Gentry in the Historical Background.

Author / Editor
Hira, Toshinori.

Title
Chaucer's Gentry in the Historical Background.

Published
In [Anonymous ed.,] Essays in English and American Literature: In Commemoration of Professor Takejiro Nakayama's Sixty-First Birthday (Tokyo: Shohakuska, 1961), pp. 31-44.

Description
Offers historical context for and commentary on the characterizations of the pilgrims in the CT who may be considered "gentry," both those of traditional gentle birth and those on the rise as a class of new gentry.

Alternative Title
Essays in English and American Literature: In Commemoration of Professor Takejiro Nakayama's Sixty-First Birthday

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales