Chaucer's Jobs (The New Middle Ages)

by David R Carlson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $53.51

  Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others.

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $115.90

  Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others.