'Bi Oon Assent: Some Chaucerian Assemblies

Author / Editor
Maule, Jeremy.

Title
'Bi Oon Assent: Some Chaucerian Assemblies

Published
H. S. Cobb, ed. Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond ([London]: House of Lords Record Office, 1981), pp. 9-16.

Description
Describes various kinds of "parliament-poems" in Middle English, focusing on PF as a model for others, and commenting on the depiction of the parliament scene in TC, Book 4, and its concern with "voting by voices" or assent. Summarizes Chaucer's biographical experiences with parliamentary proceedings.

Contributor
Cobb, H. S., ed.

Alternative Title
Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Life