Chaucer and the Economic and Social Consequences of the Plague
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, D. W.,Jr.
Chaucer and the Economic and Social Consequences of the Plague
- Published
- Francis X. Newman, ed. Social Unrest in the Middle Ages, (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 49-74.
- Description
- Robertson discusses hardships such as war, crime, extortion, maintenance and procurement, legal abuses, and the ordinances of Edward III and Richard II that serve to illuminate BD, FrT, PardT, and the GP Wife of Bath, Prioress, Monk, Merchant, Guildsmen, Host, and Squire.
- Alternative Title
- Social Unrest in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.