By Ardis Butterfield
Literature of town and the town in literature are issues of significant modern curiosity. This quantity complements our realizing of Chaucer's iconic position as a London poet, defining the fashionable feel of London as a urban in background, steeped in its medieval earlier. development on fresh paintings through historians on medieval London, in addition to glossy city thought, the essays deal with the centrality of town in Chaucer's paintings, and of Chaucer to a literature and a language of town. members discover the spatial quantity of the town, imaginatively and geographically; the varied and infrequently violent relationships among groups, and using language to spot and communicate for groups; the worlds of trade, the aristocracy, legislations, and public order. a last part considers the longer background and reminiscence of the medieval urban past the devastations of the good fireplace and into the Victorian interval. Dr ARDIS BUTTERFIELD is Reader in English at collage university London. members: ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, MARION TURNER, RUTH EVANS, BARBARA NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, DEREK PEARSALL, HELEN COOPER, C. DAVID BENSON, ELLIOT KENDALL, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, PAUL DAVIS, HELEN PHILLIPS
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36–7). On Southwark, see Martha Carlin, Medieval Southwark (London, 1996). See also Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster 1200–1540 (Oxford, 1989). 11 The Chronicle of Adam Usk 1377–1421, ed. and trans. C. Given-Wilson (Oxford, 1997), pp. 20–1. An earlier medieval description of London that includes Westminster appears in William Fitzstephen, Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi et Martyris, in Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, ed. J. C. Robertson, Rolls Series, 67 (London, 1877), III, 1–154, pp.
See also Richard Firth Green, A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (Philadelphia, 1999), p. 244. 40 ‘Proclamacio ne quis male loquatur de Rege, Regina, nec aliis dominis’, printed in BoLE, pp. 92–3 (p. 92). This document was cited in the trial of Brembre in 1388; The Westminster Chronicle, ed. and trans. L. C. Hector and Barbara F. Harvey (Oxford, 1982), p. 265. 41 Lindahl, Earnest Games, pp. 76, 75, emphasis Lindahl’s. See also Robertson, Chaucer’s London, pp. 101, 107. 42 This document, recorded in Letter Book H (1383–84) begins, ‘For as moche as rumour and spekyngge is amonges some men of the Citee .
Her anxieties about oppressive, destructive gossip are played upon by Pandarus, who manipulates her, as well as Deiphebus and Helen, by pretending he has heard gossip about Poliphete’s malicious intentions towards Criseyde. Pandarus often makes up gossip for his own purposes, pretending, for example, that he has ‘ “tydynges” ’ (II, 1113) from a ‘ “Greek espie” ’ (II, 1112) to report to his niece, when really he wants to talk to her about Troilus. He is well aware both of the nature of ‘verba vana’ and of Criseyde’s fear of it.