Chaucer : a European life /

Chaucer : a European life /

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More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer ren...

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Author / Creator: Turner, Marion, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Travel.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Homes and haunts.
Middle English, 1100-1500
Poets, English > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Biography.
Poets, English.
Travel.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Plates
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • General Prologue
  • Part I. Becoming
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Vintry Ward, London
  • Chapter 2. Great Household
  • Chapter 3. Reims and Calais
  • Chapter 4. Hainault and Navarre
  • Chapter 5. Lancaster
  • Chapter 6. Genoa and Florence
  • Part II. Being
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 7. Counting House
  • Chapter 8. Cage
  • Chapter 9. Milky Way
  • Chapter 10. Tower
  • Chapter 11. Troy
  • Chapter 12. Parliament
  • Chapter 13. Empire
  • Chapter 14. Garden
  • Part III. Approaching Canterbury
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 15. South of the Thames
  • Chapter 16. Inn
  • Chapter 17. Peripheries
  • Chapter 18. What Lies Beneath
  • Chapter 19. Threshold
  • Chapter 20. Abbey
  • Epilogue: Tomb
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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