Geoffrey Chaucer

by Peter Brown

Geoffrey Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, a devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. This compact and comprehensive volume--a new work in Oxford's Authors in Context series--offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192804294
• ISBN13: 9780192804297
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.7" x 5.1"