Chaucer and the London Middle Class

Author / Editor
Braswell, (Mary) Flowers.

Title
Chaucer and the London Middle Class

Published
Chaucer Newsletter 8:2 (1986): 1-2, 6-7.

Description
Discusses a "fourteenth-century lending law" as a possible source of Chaucer's ShT, with its depiction of a "bourgeois financial triangle." More work needs to be done on Chaucer's knowledge of municipal ordinances.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale.