Table of Contents

Preface A Knyght Ther Was by Michael A. Calabrese A Yong Squier by Peggy Huey A Yeman Had He by John W. Conlee Ther Was Also A Nonne, A Prioress by Maureen Hourigan Another Nonne With Hire Hadde She by Rebecca Stephens And Preestes Thre by Catherine Cox A Monk Ther Was, A Fair for the Maistrie by John P. Hermann A Frere Ther Was, A Wantowne and a Meryee by Karl T. Hagen A Marchant Was Ther With a Forked Berd by Nancy M. Reale A Clerk Ther Was of Oxenford Also by Bert Dillon A Sergeant of the Law, War and Wyse by Joseph Hornsby A Frankeleyn Was In His Compaignye by Liz Sembler An Haberdasher… by Laura and Robert Lambdin …And a Carpenter… by Julian N. Wasserman and Marc Guidry …A Webbe… by Gwendolyn Morgan …A Dyere… by Diana R. Uhlman …And a Tapycer by Rebecca Stephens A Cook They Had With Hem For the Nones by Constance B. Hieatt A Shipman Ther Was, Wonynge Fer By Weste by Sigrid King With Us Ther Was a Doctour of Phisik by Edwin Eleazar A Good Wive Was Ther of Biside Bath by Judith Slover And Was a Povre Persoun of a Toun by Esther M. G. Smith With Hym Ther Was a Plowman, Was His Brother by Daniel F. Pigg The Millere Was a Stout Carl for the Nones by Laura and Robert Lambdin A Gentil Maunciple Was Ther of a Temple by John H. Fisher The Reve Was a Sclendre Colerik Man by Richard B. McDonald A Sumonour Was Ther With Us In That Place by James Keller With Hym Ther Rood a Gentil Pardoner by Elton E. Smith Harry Bailly: Chaucer's Innkeeper by Thomas C. Richardson I Demed Hym Som Chanoun For To Be by Christine N. Chism His Yeman Eek Was Ful of Curteisye by Robert and Laura Lambdin "What Man Artow?": The Narrator as Writer and Pilgrim by Katharine Wilson Selected Bibliography Index

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Entries for each of the pilgrims of Canterbury Tales discuss the professions of the pilgrims and place their vocation in historical context.

About the Author

LAURA C. LAMBDIN teaches Professional Communications in the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. Her areas of specialization include Medieval, Romantic, and Victorian Literature. The Arthurian legends popular during those three periods are of particular interest to her, and she has written many articles comparing various treatments of Arthurian material. ROBERT T. LAMBDIN is Assistant Professor of English in the Provisional Year Program at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. His areas of specialization include Medieval, Old English, Renaissance, British, and Greek Drama. Of particular interest to him are the Middle English debate poems.

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?This volume as a whole is eminently useful, especially for novice and undergraduate readers of Chaucer. Individual bibliographies attached to each essay will provide young researchers excellent starting places for further study.?-Choice

"This volume as a whole is eminently useful, especially for novice and undergraduate readers of Chaucer. Individual bibliographies attached to each essay will provide young researchers excellent starting places for further study."-Choice