Chaucer's Sense of Wealth
- Author / Editor
- Dolan, T. P.
Chaucer's Sense of Wealth
- Published
- Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 61-72.
- Description
- Examines details from GP (in particular the description of the Friar) and ParsT, arguing that Chaucer held the "orthodox view" that the poor should be protected because they were precious to God. Yet Chaucer also indicates that "there is nothing wrong with wealth."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Friar and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.