'Wel Bet is Roten Appul Out of Hoord': Chaucer's Cook, Commerce, and Civic Order

Author / Editor
Bertolet, Craig E.

Title
'Wel Bet is Roten Appul Out of Hoord': Chaucer's Cook, Commerce, and Civic Order

Published
Studes in Philology 99 : 229-46, 2002.

Description
CkT illustrates what can happen to the urban household that opens its "pryvetee" to strangers who could damage the family and ruin its reputatiion in the community.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale.