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Chaucer’s People Audiobook

Chaucer’s People Audiobook

$4.99

by Liza Picard

  • Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
  • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
  • Release date: 10-05-17
  • Language: English

In Chaucer’s People, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late 14th century in an ingenious, informative and entertaining way.

Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer selected for The Canterbury Tales, Picard brings medieval social history to life and uncovers the detail behind Chaucer’s poetic portraits. These are the lives lived beyond the court circles frequented by most of his well-heeled audience. Drawing on contemporary experiences of a vast range of subjects including war, trade, religion, plague and banking, Liza Picard recreates the medieval world in all its glorious detail.

Chaucer chose his pilgrims carefully. He sometimes raises a thought-provoking query in an apparently simple portrait. The Prioress was a sweet, pretty, well-mannered young nun; what was she doing on the road to Canterbury with a mixed band of men instead of staying in her convent to pray? The Knight was ‘a very perfect gentle knight’; but why had his military service landed him in such distant places as Lithuania and Spain? By providing these characters with a three-dimensional framework – the times in which they lived – Liza Picard opens up the 14th century world to us.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Author

Liza Picard

Language

English

Length

11 hrs and 8 mins

Narrated by

Emma Spurgin Hussey

Release date

10-05-17

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