Chaucer's Pilgrims
Subtitle: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales
Contributors: Laura C. Lambdin (Editor); Robert T. Lambdin (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: April 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780275966294
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Reference works; Social history; Poetry; English; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Chaucer's Knight, the first pilgrim described, the first to tell a tale, and the overall most gentle and respected of the Canterbury pilgrims, is an English fourteenth-century version of a very long and complex military profession that we refer to as knighthood.