The House of Chaucer & Son: The Business of Lancastrian Canon-Formation

Author / Editor
Bowers, John M.

Title
The House of Chaucer & Son: The Business of Lancastrian Canon-Formation

Published
Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 135-43.

Description
Thomas Chaucer continued the lease on his father's house in the garden at Westminster Abbey to provide a repository for Geoffrey Chaucer's literary remains. His motive was to help form a Lancastrian poetic canon committed to social stability and religious orthodoxy.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life