Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context Volume 4

by Barbara A. Hanawalt

Book Overview

Chaucer's England presents new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society through a unique combination of historical inquiry and literary analysis. Beginning with the turbulent reign of Richard I and Bolingbroke's coup, the contributors look at organized crime, illiteracy, patronage, the influence Richard might have had personally over the remarkable literary production of the period, the concepts of gentility that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816620202
• ISBN13: 9780816620203
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"