Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history.
“Salisbury’s book opens up a whole realm of new possibilities for reading both Chaucer and the fourteenth century, and, commendably, encourages us all to see things through the eyes of a child.” (LARISSA TRACY, English Historical Review HER, Vol. 134 (566), February, 2019)
Eve Salisbury is Professor of English at Western Michigan University, USA. She has edited four volumes for the Middle English Texts Series and authored numerous essays on topics ranging from medieval marriage to institutionally sanctioned violence. She is the consulting editor for Comparative Drama, co-founder of Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, and co-director of the Gower Project.