Chaucer's Merchants: A Trade-Based Speculation On Their Activities

Author / Editor
Martindale, Wight, Jr.

Title
Chaucer's Merchants: A Trade-Based Speculation On Their Activities

Published
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 309-16.

Description
Fourteenth-century business practices, financial transactions,and fluctuating currency rates illuminate the characters of the ShT monk (a cloth merchant) and the GP Merchant, who probably would have chosen to travel in April, when the relative values of Flemish shields and English sterling were most propitious.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Shipman and His Tale.
Merchant and His Tale.