London and Money: Chaucer's 'Complaint to His Purse'
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, John.
London and Money: Chaucer's 'Complaint to His Purse'
- Published
- Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 162-73.
- Description
- Chaucer's begging poem reflects his anxieties about money within the complex moneyed economy of fourteenth-century London. Reprinted in Scattergood's Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society (Portland, Ore.: Four Courts, 2010).
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the City.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.