'Oure Citee': Illegality and Criminality in Fourteenth-Century London
- Author / Editor
- Forkin, Thomas Carney.
'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