The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in The Canterbury Tales - Hardcover

Brown, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631153519 ISBN 13: 9780631153511

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

The Age of Saturn Examines how Chaucer's poetry is full of exploratory links between individual and social spheres, which are particularly apparent in the themes of astrology, religion, trade, political crisis and myth. The authors analyze six of the tales to shed light on the crises of the period. Full description

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A conspicuous feature of "The Canterbury Tales "is the way Chaucer anchors general features of social upheaval in the experience of individuals, using marriage, for example, as a microcosm for larger forms of 'governance', whether social, political or religious.

In "The Age of Saturn "Peter Brown and Andrew Butcher explore how Chaucer's poetry is full of exploratory links between individual and social spheres, which are particularly apparent in the themes of astrology, religion, trade, political crisis and myth. The authors closely analyse six of the tales, and use them to shed light on the crises of the period, those fifty years or so following the Black Death: a period of uncertainty and anxiety they call the 'Age of Saturn'.

About the Author:

A. J. Butcher used to teach English to teenage girls, more recently he has devoted his time to the treatment and care of the six fictional teenagers who make up Spy High's Bond Team.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631153519
• ISBN 13: 9780631153511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320