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Chaucer and the Late Medieval World
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Lillian M. Bisson
Categories: Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

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Bisson places Chaucer's work in the context of some of the major cultural and social currents of his day, a time when the underpinnings of medieval society were
Chaucer and the Late Medieval World
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Lillian M. Bisson
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-02 - Publisher: MacMillan

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Divided between the outer world of affairs and the inner world of poetic insight, Chaucer sought to make sense of his changing, conflicting world. In this volum
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Will Robins
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion a
The Later Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Stephen Medcalf
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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Originally published in 1981, The Later Middle Ages bridges the gap between modern and medieval language and literature, by introducing the social and intellect
Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Peter Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book examines Chaucer's life and poetry through the lens of his cultural experience. It offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which hi