Sovereignty and Sewage
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
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