Adam, 'The First Stocke,' and the Political Context of Chaucer's 'Gentilesse'

Author / Editor
Hill, Thomas D.

Title
Adam, 'The First Stocke,' and the Political Context of Chaucer's 'Gentilesse'

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 145-50.

Description
Argues that "fader" in the first line of Gent refers to prelapsarian Adam, evidence of Chaucer's "modest egalitarianism."

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Gentilesse.