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Chaucer's England Literature in Historical Context Barbara A. Hanawalt |
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Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society. Chaucer’s England presents new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society through a unique combination of historical inquiry and literary analysis. Beginning with the turbulent reign of Richard I and Bolingbroke’s coup, the contributors look at organized crime, illiteracy, patronage, the influence Richard might have had personally over the remarkable literary production of the period, the concepts of gentility that shaped Chaucer’s own thinking, the pervasive influence of hunting on medieval literature, the role London played as the center of both the court and the literary world, and more. “In this entertaining and valuable volume Barbara Hanwalt gathers essays by five distinguished scholars whose work clearly belongs to the most traditional side of the discipline we know as 'history,' with essays by five distinguished scholars whose concerns are those conventionally classified as ‘literature and culture’ or ‘cultural studies.’” —Studies in the Age of Chaucer “The essays in this collection provide abundant new ideas and information for the age of Chaucer.” —Envoi Contributors: Caroline Barron, Michael Bennett, Lawrence Clopper, Susan Crane, Richard Firth Green, Barbara Hanawalt, Nicholas Orme, Nigel Saul, Paul Strohm, David Wallace. Barbara A. Hanawalt is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She has co-edited Bodies and Disciplines, City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, Medieval Crime and Social Control, and Medieval Practices of Space. 256 pages | 1992 |
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$23.50 paper