...And a Carpenter...

Author / Editor
Wasserman, Julian N.,and Marc Guidry.

Title
...And a Carpenter...

Published
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales". (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 154-69.

Description
As background to the GP carpenter--one of the Guildsmen--this essay surveys the prospects and activities of medieval carpenters: their organization into guilds and the guild hierarchy, their relations with masons and iron mongers, their techniques and tools of lumbering and building, regulation of their wages and workdays, etc.

Contributor
Guidry, Marc.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.