Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-164) and index.
Contents
1. Work. Domestic service -- The customs work -- Justice of the Peace -- Clerk of the King's works -- 2. Writing. The complaints -- Troilus and Criseyde -- The Canterbury Tales -- 3. Reception. Eustache Deschamps -- Thomas Usk's Testament of love -- Gower, Clanvowe, and Scogan -- Thomas Hoccleve.