Common Profit: Economic Morality in English Public Political Discourse, c. 1340-1406
- Author / Editor
- Bryant, Brantley L.
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