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A companion to Chaucer and his contemporaries : texts & contexts / edited by Laurel Amtower, Jacqueline Vanhoutte.
- Title
- A companion to Chaucer and his contemporaries : texts & contexts / edited by Laurel Amtower, Jacqueline Vanhoutte.
- Publication
- Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR1906.5 .C66 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 480 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered. This sourcebook gives readers fuller access to Middle English literary works by situating these works within their sometimes alien historical and cultural contexts. Chapters open with an overview that suggests how contemporary debates and attitudes influence meaning in works like the Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, and Mankind. The main body of the text is thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations, such as excerpts from the chronicles, law treatises, sermons, court records, medical and alchemical tracts, and performance records, as well as maps and manuscript illustrations."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Angleterre > Civilisation > 1066-1485 > Sources
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Criticism and interpretation
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, m. 1400 > Critique et interprétation
- Civilisation médiévale > Sources
- Civilization, Medieval > Sources
- England > Civilization > 1066-1485 > Sources
- England
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
- Geschichte 1300-1400
- Kultur
- Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais)
- Middle Ages > Sources
- Moyen Âge > Sources
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 458-480.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Politics and ideology in the fourteenth century -- "From every shires ende" : the structure of society -- "Of mete and drynk" : daily life in medieval England -- "Hooly thought and werk" : religious life, ritual, and prayer -- "Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisie" : war, pageantry, and the knighthood -- "Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche" : reading, literacy, and education -- "Magyk natureel" : science, medicine, psychology, and alchemy -- "To Flanders wol I go" : international influences and exchanges.
- ISBN
- 9781551117966
- 1551117967
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library