Geoffrey Chaucer's Ploughman and the Nobility of Toil
- Author / Editor
- Cornelius, Michael J.
Geoffrey Chaucer's Ploughman and the Nobility of Toil
- Published
- Zachary Michael Jack, ed. Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 143-55.
- Description
- Assesses Chaucer's respect for the work of medieval farmers and medieval students (as evident in GP and ClT), interspersed with Cornelius' recollections of his decision to leave farming for academic study.
- Contributor
- Jack, Zachary Michael, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Clerk and His Tale