Chaucer's England
Duncan Taylor
Hardcover
(Dobson, Sept. 1, 1968)
Close the history book and think how life really was in the fourteenth century. Do you know how houses looked inside, and what dinner tasted like, and what was worn in the boys' schools which forbade "long hair and pointed shoes?" Here is the world we think of as Chaucer's England, rather than Edward III's or Richard III's, because the great poet made the time live so vividly for us in his "Canterbury Tales." This book tells about what happened At Home, Growing Up, Going to Church, Fighting and Having Fun in the fourteenth century. There is a chapter too on the King's Court and In Trouble.