Opowieści Kanterberyjskie na Tle Epoki. [The Canterbury Tales and Their Age]

Author / Editor
Mroczkowski, Przemysław.

Title
Opowieści Kanterberyjskie na Tle Epoki. [The Canterbury Tales and Their Age]

Published
Lublin, 1956.

Physical Description
441 pp.; 13 illus.

Series
Wydawnictwa Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, no. 12.

Description
Describes and assesses the CT, with chapters on social and intellectual backgrounds, Chaucer’s life, his use of pilgrimage and frame tale conventions, GP, and each of the individual tales, following the Ellesmere order. Discussions of individual tales emphasize the characterization of the narrators and their conflicts with other pilgrims, genres, sources, and various social and moral concerns. Includes a descriptive summary in English (pp. 435-41), a bibliography, and an index

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General