Chaucer's Franklin and the Literary Vavasour

Author / Editor
Pearcy Roy J.

Title
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