Chaucer's Franklin and the Literary Vavasour
- Author / Editor
- Pearcy Roy J.
Chaucer's Franklin and the Literary Vavasour
- Published
- Chaucer Review 8.1 (1973): 33-59.
- Description
- Surveys the literary tradition of the term "vavasour" and explores the implications of its use to describe the Franklin in GP. Focuses on encounters between vavasours and knights in French Arthurian romances, the juxtaposition of FranT and SqT, and gentility.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies
- Squire and His Tale