Chaucer and his world / Derek Brewer.
Chaucer and his world / Derek Brewer.
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Publisher
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 1992.
Date
1992.
Call Numbers
G 2013/6611
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Language
English
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Physical content
208 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Preface to 1992 Edition -- Preface to 1978 Edition -- 1. Origins -- 2. A Fourteenth-Century Childhood -- 3. A Page at Court -- 4. Beginning a Career -- 5. At the Court of Edward III -- 6. The Unknown Years -- 7. Chaucer and Italy -- 8. London, Flower of Cities All -- 9. Rape and Rapine -- 10. Toward...
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Publisher
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 1992.
Edition
[2nd. ed.]
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1992.
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Summary
Chaucer stood close to the centre of this world. He was one of the new literate laymen, a product of the merchant-gentry - from early youth a courtier, briefly a soldier, throughout his life an administrator, diplomat, scholar, withal a very great poet. Derek Brewer's biography offers what cultural anthropologists may call a 'thick description' of...
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Chaucer and his world / Derek Brewer.
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Originally published: London : Eyre Methuen ; New York : Dodd, Mead, 1978.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-195) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N821.1/C496.1/153.
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G 2013/6611
Record Identifier
74VKMzGXLE8b
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ISBN
0859913651 (hardback)
085991366X (pbk.) :
9780859913652 (hardback) :
0859913651 (hardback) :
085991366X (pbk.)
9780859913652 (hardback)
DDC
821.1
MMS ID
991021208089702626
