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Childress, Diana

Chaucer's England

(4) YA This wide-ranging overview includes solid information and intriguing anecdotes about how various levels of society lived in fourteenth-century England. Religion, education, commerce, and daily life are discussed in cogent prose and illustrated with historical reproductions. However, the text makes frequent references to The Canterbury Tales, giving this work the feeling of a supplementary study guide instead of standing on its own merit. Bib., ind.

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