Buy this book on-line

Butterfield, Ardis [ed] : Chaucer and the City (Chaucer Studies)

D.S.Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2006

ISBN 1843840731

[Chaucer Studies Vol XXXVII] Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of London as a city in history, steeped in its medieval past. Building on recent work by historians on medieval London, as well as modern urban theory, the essays address the centrality of the city in Chaucer's work, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of the city. Contributors explore the spatial extent of the city, imaginatively and geographically; the diverse and sometimes violent relationships between communities, and the use of language to identify and speak for communities; the worlds of commerce, the aristocracy, law, and public order. A final section considers the longer history and memory of the medieval city beyond the devastations of the Great Fire and into the Victorian period. 231p. ibliography index. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

1st UK Edition.

Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints.