Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The General Prologue
- 3 Gentles: chivalry and the courtly world
- 4 Churls: commerce and the material world
- 5 Women
- 6 The art and problems of tale-telling
- 7 The final tales
- 8 Afterword: the reception of the Canterbury Tales
- Guide to further reading
- Index to discussions of indivisual tales
- References
Guide to further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The General Prologue
- 3 Gentles: chivalry and the courtly world
- 4 Churls: commerce and the material world
- 5 Women
- 6 The art and problems of tale-telling
- 7 The final tales
- 8 Afterword: the reception of the Canterbury Tales
- Guide to further reading
- Index to discussions of indivisual tales
- References
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- Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales , pp. 123 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003