Common Profit: Economic Morality in English Public Political Discourse, c. 1340-1406

Author / Editor
Bryant, Brantley L.

Title
Common Profit: Economic Morality in English Public Political Discourse, c. 1340-1406

Published
DAI A68.09 (2008): n.p.

Description
Chaucer and other writers of the "middle strata" of English society (Gower and Langland) "imagine economic activity" in ways that are much like the views recorded in documentary writing. Such writings by societal, administrative, and governmental authors were a site of resistance to "royal demands for acquiescence."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism