'Oure Citee': Illegality and Criminality in Fourteenth-Century London

Author / Editor
Forkin, Thomas Carney.

Title
'Oure Citee': Illegality and Criminality in Fourteenth-Century London

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 24 (2007): 31-41.

Description
Close reading of CkT, of descriptions of Roger the Cook in CT, and of relevant late fourteenth-century laws and statutes reveals that Chaucer's powers of observation extend to the lower levels of society and the workings of London's "underworld."

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale