Chaucer and the Late Medieval World

By - Lillian M. Bisson

Floor - Floor 3

Published - St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998

ISBN 10 - 0312224664

ISBN 13 - 9780312224660

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Shelf No - 7

Call Number - 821.1 BIS

Physical Description - x, 294 pages ; 22 cm

Notes - Includes index

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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 Chaucer and the Late Medieval World , Lillian M. Bisson examines the societal issues that the poet explored in his work. She focuses on three major areas of medieval life - religion, class/commerce, and gender - all of which were experiencing considerable change in the fourteenth century. The book builds a bridge between an unmediated encounter with Chaucer's texts and the more specialized discussions found in most contemporary criticism, and provides a detailed analysis of Christian culture. By placing each topic in a broad cultural context, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World helps the reader to better understand the questions that teased Chaucer's imagination into poetry and to enter into the cultural conversation with which he engaged his audience.

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