Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

by Liza Picard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002298
• ISBN13: 9781324002291
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"