'His Table Dormant in His Halle': Was Chaucer's Franklin Old-Fashioned?
- Author / Editor
- Lucas, Peter J.
'His Table Dormant in His Halle': Was Chaucer's Franklin Old-Fashioned?
- Published
- Notes and Queries 232 (1987): 291-92.
- Description
- By Chaucer's time, it had become common for magnates to take their meals in privacy, not in the great hall. Such practice is criticized in "Piers Plowman" B 10.99-102 (Kane ed.). Hence, the Franklin may be being praised for retaining the ancient communal spirit.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.