TY - BOOK ID - 818713 TI - Chaucer and medieval estates satire PY - 1973 SN - 052120058X 0521097959 0511552971 0511864477 9780521200585 9780511552977 9780521097956 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey KW - Estates (Social orders) KW - Prologues and epilogues KW - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature KW - Satire, Medieval KW - Tales, Medieval KW - Social history KW - Social problems in literature KW - Social classes in literature KW - Satire KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Religious aspects KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Political and social views KW - -Social classes in literature KW - -Social problems in literature KW - -Satire KW - -Prologues and epilogues KW - -Estates (Social orders) KW - -Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Sociology KW - Medieval satire KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Feudalism KW - Epilogues KW - Postscripts (Epilogues) KW - Prefaces KW - Comic literature KW - Literature KW - Wit and humor KW - Invective KW - Medieval tales KW - -Chaucer, Geoffrey KW - -Political and social views KW - -History and criticism KW - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. KW - Social problems in literature. KW - Social classes in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Political and social views. KW - -Commons (Social order) KW - Descriptive sociology 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 - Arts and Humanities KW - Estates (Social orders) - England - History - To 1500 KW - Prologues and epilogues - History and criticism KW - Satire, Medieval - History and criticism KW - Tales, Medieval - History and criticism KW - Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 KW - Satire - Religious aspects KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Canterbury tales - Prologue KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 - Political and social views KW - CHAUCER (GEOFFREY), d. 1400 KW - LITERATURE AND SOCIETY KW - CANTERBURY TALES KW - PROLOGUE KW - ENGLAND KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, - -1400 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:818713 AB - This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life. ER -