TY - BOOK ID - 40861225 TI - Historians on Chaucer : the "General Prologue" to the Canterbury tales AU - Rigby, Stephen AU - Minnis, Alastair J. PY - 2014 SN - 0191802662 0191003689 0199689547 1322236690 9780191003684 9780191802669 9780199689545 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Political and social views. KW - Chaucer, Jeffrey, KW - Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, KW - Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, KW - Choser, Dzheffri, KW - Choser, Zheoffreĭ, KW - Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, KW - Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, KW - England KW - Great Britain KW - Intellectual life KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40861225 AB - As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relationsand social inequalities of their time. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, medieval historians have played little part in this 'historical ER -