A Clerk Ther Was of Oxenford Also

Author / Editor
Dillon, Bert.

Title
A Clerk Ther Was of Oxenford Also

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. 108-15.

Description
Reads the Clerk's sketch in GP as an idealized depiction of academic life in fourteenth-century Oxford, summarizing typical activities and outlooks.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.