Sovereignty and Sewage

Author / Editor
Strohm, Paul.

Title
Sovereignty and Sewage

Published
Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds. Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 57-70.

Description
Strohm assesses historical implications of the concern with civic and personal cleansing in Lydgate's "Troy Book" and comments on Chaucer's imagery of cleansing in GP, his concern with civic orderliness in KnT, and his personal experiences with sovereignty and civic planning as Clerk of Works.

Alternative Title
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Chaucer's Life