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Chaucer's world : a pictorial companion
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- Summary
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Presents everyday life in medieval England and illustrates from medieval manuscripts the characters and skills upon which Chaucer drew.
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- Creator
- photographs and maps compiled and introduced by Maurice Hussey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge U.P., 1967
- Physical Details
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- 172 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, maps, plan, facsimiles, table ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 0521053544, 9780521053549
- OCLC
- ocm02579794, ocm00351138, ocm00351138
- Includes bibliographical references (page 164).
- Maps before the journey -- St Thomas of Canterbury -- "Pilgrims were they all" -- The face of England -- The knight and his company -- The regular clergy -- The merchant -- The clerk -- The sergeant and his company -- The gildsmen and their cook -- The shipman -- The doctor of physic -- The wife of Bath -- The militant church -- The miller and the reeve -- Two damned souls -- Two final introductions -- Chaucer: pilgrim-poet -- Pieter Brueghel -- Taking it further