The Five Guildsmen

Chaucer's attitude towards the Five Guildsmen is not easy to determine and his portrait of them has been subject to many diverse readings. This chapter asks whether historical study of the medieval guilds brings us any closer to an appreciation of the resonances, for late-medieval readers, of C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosser, A
Format: Book section
Published: Oxford University Press 2014