The Merchant
- Author / Editor
- Goddard, Richard.
The Merchant
- 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. 170-86.
- Description
- Examines how Chaucer's understanding of medieval trade, finance, and commerce is reflected in the Merchant's portrait in GP. Connects historical fluctutions in the English and Italian wool trade to the Merchant's business acumen in MerT.
- Alternative Title
- Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale