Chaucer's Jobs

(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)

by David R. Carlson

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Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at police-work of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230602436

ISBN13:9780230602434

Release Date:June 2008

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:168 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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