Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household

Author / Editor
Kendall, Elliot.

Title
Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household

Published
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008.

Physical Description
xii, 301 pp.

Description
Studies the "lordship economics" of late fourteenth-century England, especially as represented in the literature of John Gower, but providing historical and political backgrounds, and commenting on similar concerns in Chaucer and other writers. Includes observations about PF, MLT, and the use of the term "bachelor" as applied to the Squire and in ClT, and explores courtly lordship in LGWP.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Man of Law and His Tale
Squire and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Language and Word Studies