Chaucer in Context

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The Canterbury Tales are acknowledged as a leading text of the English Canon Among the most written about works of English literature, they defy categorization. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a skeptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the actual society of his day or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Did his writings present a challenge to the dominant social outlook of late Medieval England or reinforce the status quo? This stimulating new book surveys and assesses these competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, emphasizing the need to see Chaucer in historical, social and political context of his own day. Writing as a historian, Rigby brings refreshing new insights. Chaucer and his Tales, are revealed to us as Chaucer's contemporaries would have seen them.