Bribes

Author / Editor
Noonan, John T.,Jr.

Title
Bribes

Published
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.

Physical Description
839 pp.

Description
Studies bribery in a "variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to modern America," with short treatments of Chaucer (pp. 287-90, powerfully articulating "the anti-bribery ethic" in FrT, SumT, PardT, ClT, ParsT); Langland (pp. 275-79); and Dante (pp. 239-56).

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.