Chaucer and Everyday Death: The Clerk’s Tale, Burial, and the Subject of Poverty

The Making of the English Working Class.

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Classical Sociology, Language Education, Education +17

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

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Literary Theory, Literary History, Second Edition +13

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The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance

David L. Ransel, John Boswell · History of Education Quarterly · 1990 · 357 citations

Literary History, Historical Methodology, Historical Scholarship +14

The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England

Richard H. Helmholz, Barbara A. Hanawalt · The American Historical Review · 1987 · 337 citations

Historical Methodology, English Culture, Social Class +12