The Twenty-Five Ploughs of Sir John: The Tale of Gamelyn and the Implications of Acreage
- Author / Editor
- Iersel, Geert van.
The Twenty-Five Ploughs of Sir John: The Tale of Gamelyn and the Implications of Acreage
- Published
- Thea Summerfield and Keith Busby, eds. People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies Presented to Erik Kooper (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 111-22.
- Description
- Examines concern with land ownership in the Tale of Gamelyn in light of contemporary land values and incomes. The audience of the poem may have considered Sir John's division of his property in the poem both legal and morally justified.
- Alternative Title
- People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies Presented to Erik Kooper.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha