Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

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LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature and Chaucer and the Subject of History, awarded the Christian Gauss prize by Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he is the author of numerous essays on medieval literature.

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Book Title: Temporal Circumstances
Book Subtitle: Form and History in the Canterbury Tales
Authors: Lee Patterson
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08451-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7481-5Published: 19 December 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08451-4Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 279
Topics: Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, Classical and Antique Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History

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