John Shirley's Early Bureaucratic Career.

Author / Editor
Veeman, Kathryn.

Title
John Shirley's Early Bureaucratic Career.

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 255-63.

Description
Establishes that scribe John Shirley lived in Westminster/London early in his career (in the 1390s) and therefore may have been familiar with Chaucer at the time, lending credibility to Shirley's opinions about Chaucer's works and their dates of composition.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Life