The Churchmen of Chaucer's London: The Seculars
- Author / Editor
- McHardy, A. K.
The Churchmen of Chaucer's London: The Seculars
- Published
- Medieval Prosopography 16 (1995): 57-87.
- Description
- Examination of tax records gives a picture of the distribution of clerical personnel in London around 1380.
- The majority of more than 800 secular clergy were unbeneficed chaplains, many coming from outside the city.
- Other categories include clerks, beneficed parochial clergy, beneficed chantry chaplains, and the most elite group, the canons of St. Paul's and the chapel of St. Martin-le-Grand.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.