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Author Hussey, Maurice.

Title Chaucer's world : a pictorial companion / photographs and maps compiled and introduced by Maurice Hussey
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1967
Cambridge : University Press, 1967

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 W'PONDS  820.2 C4964 Y/H  AVAILABLE
Description 172 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, maps, plan, facsimiles, table ; 25 1/2 cm
Contents 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
Summary Presents everyday life in medieval England and illustrates from medieval manuscripts the characters and skills upon which Chaucer drew
Analysis Chaucer, Geoffrey Homes and haunts Pictorial works England
England Social life and customs Pictorial works 1066-1485
Literature and society History Pictorial works To 1500 England
Notes Bibliography: p. 164
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Contemporary England
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Homes and haunts -- Pictorial works -- England.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Pictorial works.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Civilization, Medieval -- Pictorial works.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500 -- Pictorial works.
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043320 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272
England -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043272 -- Pictorial works http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272 -- 1066-1485
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
LC no. 67011523
ISBN 0521053544 (hbk)
0521094305 (paperback)