Writing, Authority, and Bureaucracy

Author / Editor
Perkins, Nicholas.

Title
Writing, Authority, and Bureaucracy

Published
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 68-89.

Description
Explores how the affiliation of bureaucracy and writing developed in England, plus the impact of the association on notions of authority. Mentions several petitions and warrants pertaining to Chaucer and comments on Purse and Pity as petitions.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life
Complaint unto Pity
Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse