All That Glisters : The Historical Setting of the Tale of Sir Thopas

Author / Editor
Askins, William.

Title
All That Glisters : The Historical Setting of the Tale of Sir Thopas

Published
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 271-89.

Description
Askins reads Th for details that reflect Anglo-Flemish relations during the Hundred Years War. He identifies heraldic details, commercial concerns, and echoes of the Ghent war of 1379-84.

Alternative Title
Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning .

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas.