Adam, 'The First Stocke,' and the Political Context of Chaucer's 'Gentilesse'
- Author / Editor
- Hill, Thomas D.
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.