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The Five Guildsmen
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Chaucer's attitude towards the Five Guildsmen is not easy to determine and his portrait of them has been subject to many diverse readings. This chapter asks whether historical study of the medieval guilds brings us any closer to an appreciation of the resonances, for late-medieval readers, of Chaucer's text. In particular, we need to see the Guildsmen's fraternity in terms of contemporary debates about such associations and their secular and religious purposes. The poet himself does not preac...
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- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689545.003.0014
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- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
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- Historians on Chaucer
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- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-04
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- 0199689547
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- 9780199689545
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- 2014
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- © Oxford University Press 2014. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from OUP at: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689545.003.0014
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