Chaucer's people : everyday lives in medieval England /
Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court, men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate or on the high seas. I...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court, men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills and farms of a manor house to the lending houses and Inns of Court in London. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 341 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781324002291 1324002298 |