The Clerk
- Author / Editor
- Briggs, Charles F.
The Clerk
- 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. 187-205.
- Description
- Presents a variety of historical contexts for Chaucer's characterization of the Clerk, discussing medieval universities, manuscripts from fourteenth-century Oxford, and the role of clerks in medieval society. Includes appendices of "Manuscripts Associated with the Arts Curriculum at Oxford" and "John Cobbledik's Books."
- Alternative Title
- Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale