London and Money: Chaucer's 'Complaint to His Purse'

Author / Editor
Scattergood, John.

Title
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.