TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Marion
TI  - Chaucer: A European Life 
SN  - 9780691160092
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - Middle English, 1100-1500
KW  - Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Accounting
KW  - Alice Perrers
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Archbishop of Canterbury
KW  - Blanche of Lancaster
KW  - Brothel
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Career
KW  - Confessio Amantis
KW  - Counting house
KW  - Courtier
KW  - Courtly love
KW  - De Vere
KW  - Dream vision
KW  - Edward III of England
KW  - Elizabeth de Burgh
KW  - England
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Exchequer
KW  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Fabliau
KW  - Favourite
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gascony
KW  - General Prologue
KW  - Genre
KW  - Geoffrey Chaucer
KW  - Giotto
KW  - Gold coin
KW  - Good Parliament
KW  - Guillaume de Machaut
KW  - His Family
KW  - House of Lancaster
KW  - Household
KW  - Italians
KW  - Jacques Le Goff
KW  - Jean de Meun
KW  - Jews
KW  - John Gower
KW  - John Northampton
KW  - John of Gaunt
KW  - Katherine Swynford
KW  - Literature
KW  - Lithuania
KW  - Lollardy
KW  - Long poem
KW  - Lords Appellant
KW  - Macrobius
KW  - Magnate
KW  - Middle English
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Olite
KW  - Otium
KW  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Palamon and Arcite
KW  - Pandarus
KW  - Parody
KW  - Payment
KW  - Petrarch
KW  - Philippa of Hainault
KW  - Philippa
KW  - Piers Plowman
KW  - Poet
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Prose
KW  - Reims
KW  - Retinue
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Ricardian (Richard III)
KW  - Roman de la Rose
KW  - Stanza
KW  - Statute
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Supporter
KW  - T. S. Eliot
KW  - Tavern
KW  - Tax
KW  - Teseida
KW  - The Book of the Duchess
KW  - The Canterbury Tales
KW  - The Decameron
KW  - The House of Fame
KW  - The Knight's Tale
KW  - The Legend of Good Women
KW  - The Romaunt of the Rose
KW  - The Wife of Bath's Tale
KW  - Thomas Chaucer
KW  - Thomas Usk
KW  - Thomas of Woodstock (play)
KW  - Tomb
KW  - Troilus and Criseyde
KW  - Troilus
KW  - Vassal
KW  - Vintry
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Writer
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Plates --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; General Prologue --; PART I: Becoming --; Chapter 1. Vintry Ward, London --; Chapter 2. Great Household --; Chapter 3. Reims and Calais --; Chapter 4. Hainault and Navarre --; Chapter 5. Lancaster --; Chapter 6. Genoa and Florence --; PART II: Being --; Chapter 7. Counting House --; Chapter 8. Cage --; Chapter 9. Milky Way --; Chapter 10. Tower --; Chapter 11. Troy --; Chapter 12. Parliament --; Chapter 13. Empire --; Chapter 14. Garden --; PART III: Approaching Canterbury --; Chapter 15. South of the Thames --; Chapter 16. Inn --; Chapter 17. Peripheries --; Chapter 18. What Lies Beneath --; Chapter 19. Threshold --; Chapter 20. Abbey --; Epilogue Tomb --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant’s son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer’s adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination.Uncovering important new information about Chaucer’s travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer’s experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter’s nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer’s writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales.By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant’s son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185682?locatt=mode:legacy
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