The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns

Author / Editor
Hanawalt, Barbara A.

Title
The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns

Published
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 204-23.

Description
Explores legal and historical records pertaining to innkeepers and innkeeping in late-medieval London as a backdrop to the character of Chaucer's Host. Harry Bailly is most notable for his shrewd handling of people and his responsible maintaining of social order in the "disorderly space" of the inn.
Previously published in "Of Good and Ill Repute": Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 104-23.

Alternative Title
Medieval Crime and Social Control.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.