Why Stay at the Tabard? Public Inns and Their Amenities c. 1400.
- Author / Editor
- Carlin, Martha.
Why Stay at the Tabard? Public Inns and Their Amenities c. 1400.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 413–21.
- Description
- Distinguishes among taverns, alehouses, and public inns, providing historical evidence that the latter were in Chaucer's day a "new institution," and maintaining that his setting of the opening of GP in an inn engages an emergent social culture, innovative in its amenities and diversity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales