Chaucer's People : Everyday Lives in Medieval England

Chaucer's People : Everyday Lives in Medieval England
ISBN: 9781780228907
Publication Date: 30 October 2018

A fascinating exploration of the Middle Ages through the lives of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from

The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent at the pedal of a loom, maintaining the ledgers of an estate or navigating the high seas. Drawing on contemporary experiences of a vast range of subjects including trade, religion, toe-curling remedies and hair-raising recipes, bestselling historian Liza Picard recreates the medieval world in glorious detail.

About the Author

Liza Picard was born in 1927. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London:

Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and

Victorian London . Her most recent book,

Chaucer's People, explores the middle ages through the lives of the pilgrims in

The Canterbury Tales.

She read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn, but did not practise. She worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue before retiring to become a full-time author. She lives in London.