Chaucer's Pilgrims
Subtitle: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales
Contributors: Laura C. Lambdin (Editor); Robert T. Lambdin (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: February 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780313293344
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Reference works; Social history; Chaucer, Geoffrey, D.1400; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; Reference; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Pilgrims; Canterbury tales; Characters; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; History and criticism; Occupations in literature; Tales, Medieval; d. 1400
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.