Yale University Press · New release
Chaucer's England
Yale University Press · World History
Released October 13, 2026 · ISBN 9780300285048
About the book
Orme reads the Canterbury pilgrims as evidence — what fourteenth-century English people believed, owned, read and ranked. The poem as a window on its own world.
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