Chaucer - A European Life Turner MarionPevná vazba
Chaucer - A European Life Turner MarionPevná vazba A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English…
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Chaucer - A European Life Turner MarionPevná vazba
A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poetsMore than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. 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.
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