The Canterbury Tales (Unwin Critical Library)

The Canterbury tales (Unwin critical library)

Pearsall, Derek Albert

Literature & Fiction

G. Allen & Unwin

ISBN 0236154516. Hardcover with dustwrapper. Some shelfwear to top of dustwrapper. Former owner's name on first flyleaf, otherwise clean, unmarked copy in very good condition.

Landscapes and seasons of the medieval world

Elek

This uniquely ambitious history offers an account of all aspects of cultural activity and production throughout the world of Latin Christendom 1200-1450. Beginning with a detailed description of the political and economic circumstances that allowed the 'Gothic Moment' to flourish, the body of the book is both a celebration of the Gothic cultural achievement - in cathedral-building, in manuscript illumination, in chivalric love-romance, in stained glass and in many other arts - and an investigation of its social origins and systems of production.

Gothic Europe 1200-1450 (Arts, Culture, and Society in the Western World)

History

World

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

John Lydgate (Poets of the later Middle Ages)

History & Criticism

Routledge & K.Paul

<p>Sm Quarto, Blue Cloth, PP.218, B &amp; W Illustrations, Presented Aspects Of Paradise and Perdition</p>

Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World

University of Toronto Press

University Press of Virginia

<p>This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs, who made so many `improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival, and the poet. He lived during that exciting and turbulent period in English history which saw not only the deposition of Richard II in 1399 but also the emergence of a new English poetry and a brilliant, if short-lived, English cultural renaissance. Close to the centre of government, always identified with the king's `affinity', Chaucer undertook important and often secret diplomatic missions, to France and Italy, and bore financial and administrative responsibility for vital government offices at the Customs and the King's Works. Derek Pearsall shows that Chaucer's immersion in his troubled times was more intimately expressed in his work than is admitted by traditional accounts. The `accommodations' of his public life are seen as being of a piece with the habitual irony, the studied elusiveness of the poetry, in which almost everything that could be construed as comment on contemporary events is avoided. This major reexamination of England's greatest narrative poet is supplemented with reproductions of Chaucer's portraits and other illustrations, including maps of medieval London.</p>

The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies)

British & Irish

Blackwell Pub.

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