Literature and Social Terminology: The Vavasour in England
- Author / Editor
- Coss, P. R.
Literature and Social Terminology: The Vavasour in England
- Published
- T. H. Aston et al., eds. Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 109-50.
- Description
- Coss surveys Continental and English historical and literary uses of the term "vavasour" to demonstrate its varying meanings. Applied to Chaucer's Franklin, the term might convey an "old-fashioned air," but such connotations must be drawn from literary rather than social contexts.
- Contributor
- Aston, T. H.,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Social Relations and Ideas: Essays in Honour of R. H. Hilton.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.