A Frankeleyn Was in His Compaignye
- Author / Editor
- Sembler, Elizabeth Mauer.
A Frankeleyn Was in His Compaignye
- 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. 135-44.
- Description
- The ambiguous social and legal status of franklins in fourteenth-century England makes it difficult to know whether Chaucer's Franklin was a member of the gentry or an aspirant to the gentle class. Sembler surveys critical opinions about the Franklin's gentility.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.