"Soper at oure aller cost": The Politics of Food Supply in the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Archer, Jayne Elizabeth, Richard Marggraf Turley, and Howard Thomas.

Title
"Soper at oure aller cost": The Politics of Food Supply in the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Chaucer Review 50.1-2 (2015): 1–29.

Description
Proposes connections between the CT--especially Chaucer's Plowman, the apocryphal Plowman's Tale, and RvT--and ideas about food supply. Provides an overarching argument that anxieties about farming and the politics of how food was distributed in late fourteenth-century England tie together many of the tales and pilgrims' words.

Contributor
Marggraf Turley, Richard
Thomas, Howard

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Reeve and His Tale
Chaucerian Apocrypha