Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chauc

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly w

"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional.

Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English

"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.