Chaucer and the 'Commune Profit': The Manor

Author / Editor
Robertson, D. W.,Jr.

Title
Chaucer and the 'Commune Profit': The Manor

Published
Mediaevalia 6 (1980): 239-59.

Description
Aware of the ethics of "commune profit," Chaucer condemns the self-seeking Franklin, Miller, Reeve, and Wife of Bath, while commending the other-centered Parson and Plowman.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.