The Ploughman
- Author / Editor
- Bailey, Mark.
The Ploughman
- Published
- Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 352-67.
- Description
- Reviews the history of rural society in late fourteenth-century England, as well as stereotypes of medieval ploughmen. Reinforces how the plagues affected labor issues and "social relations within the third estate." Argues that Chaucer's Ploughman combines "characteristics of the estates ideal and the model Christian."
- Alternative Title
- Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales