The Earliest Known Owners of 'Canterbury Tales' MSS and Chaucer's Secondary Audience

Author / Editor
Richardson, Malcolm.

Title
The Earliest Known Owners of 'Canterbury Tales' MSS and Chaucer's Secondary Audience

Published
Chaucer Review 25 (1990): 17-32.

Description
An examination of the two earliest-known owners of a CT manuscript suggests that Chaucer's secondary audience was literate, secular in its interests, urban, and word-oriented.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.