Chaucer's Guildsmen and Their Fraternity.

Description: Comments on previous scholarship that seeks to clarify the GP description of the Guildsmen (1.361-78) and describes the possible political, economic, and religious affiliations among individuals of such professions as Chaucer assigns to them. Shows that that they should be understood to belong to a "parish fraternity" (i.e., one having no specific craft affiliation), specifically "The Guild of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian, St. Botolph's Church, Aldersgate."