Why Stay at the Tabard? Public Inns and Their Amenities c. 1400.

Author / Editor
Carlin, Martha.

Title
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