The Reformation: A History of European Civilization from Wyclif to Calvin, 1300-1564.

Description: Describes Chaucer's life and works in a brief subsection of chapter two (pp. 47-56), offering appreciative commentary that characterizes the poet as one who "loved life," despite awareness of the "faults, sins, crimes, follies, and vanities of mankind." Suggests that Chauvcer "not a very learned man," but was "largely free from the superstitions of his age" and, "[h]ere and there, raises a doubt of some religious doctrine."