Chaucer's Franklin and Others of the Vavasour Family
- Author / Editor
- Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Chaucer's Franklin and Others of the Vavasour Family
- Published
- Modern Philology 87 (1990): 239-48.
- Description
- Chaucer's descripiton of the Franklin as a "vavasour" (GP 360) reflects his acquaintance with the Vavasour family. Like Chaucer, Sir William Vavasour testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor controversy; other Vavasours held offices similar to the Franklin's, although none was a sheriff. The allusion contributes to the poet's topicality, elusiveness, and juxtaposition of epistemological dichotomies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Franklin and His Tale.