Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about...
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Author: Liza Picard
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Language: English
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Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Picard, Liza

Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

€45,80

Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

€45,80
Author: Liza Picard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court--men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills and farms of a manor house to the lending houses and Inns of Court in London.

In Chaucer's People we meet again the motley crew of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. Drawing on a range of historical records such as the Magna Carta, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Cookery in English, Picard puts Chaucer's characters into historical context and mines them for insights into what people ate, wore, read, and thought in the Middle Ages. What can the Miller, "big...of brawn and eke of bones" tell us about farming in fourteenth-century England? What do we learn of medieval diets and cooking methods from the Cook? With boundless curiosity and wit, Picard re-creates the religious, political, and financial institutions and customs that gave order to these lives.



Author: Liza Picard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781324002291


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 02/11/2019
Booklist 03/01/2019 pg. 18

About the Author
Picard, Liza: - Liza Picard is the author of a series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr. Johnson's London, and Victorian London. She graduated with a law degree from the London School of Economics and was called to the bar by Gray's Inn. She lives in London.

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