The Canterbury Tales and the Good Society

by Paul Olson

Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious discipline. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691066930
• ISBN13: 9780691066936
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.8"