Historians on Chaucer : the 'general prologue' to the Canterbury tales / edited by Stephen H. Rigby, with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis.

As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condit...

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