Chaucer's 'Burgesses' and the Alderman of London

Author / Editor
Goodall, Peter.

Title
Chaucer's 'Burgesses' and the Alderman of London

Published
Medium AEvum 50 (1981): 284-91.

Description
Examines GP 369-84 in light of the guild feud in London in the 1370s and 1380s, reviewing opinions of Kuhl and Fullerton, and Skeat. "In his attitudes toward the guildsmen...the pilgrim Chaucer shows himself as more petty-bourgeois than bourgeois."

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.