Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on References
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Anti-Clerical Tradition in Estates Satire
- 3 Estates Ideals
- 4 The Omission of the Victim
- 5 Independent Traditions: Chivalry and Anti-Feminism
- 6 Descriptive Traditions: Beauty and the Beast
- 7 ‘Scientific’ Portraits
- 8 New Creations
- Excursus: The ‘General Prologue’ and the ‘Descriptio’ Tradition
- 9 Conclusions
- Appendices
- A Estates Lists
- B Chaucer, Langland and Gower
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography and List of Works Cited
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on References
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Anti-Clerical Tradition in Estates Satire
- 3 Estates Ideals
- 4 The Omission of the Victim
- 5 Independent Traditions: Chivalry and Anti-Feminism
- 6 Descriptive Traditions: Beauty and the Beast
- 7 ‘Scientific’ Portraits
- 8 New Creations
- Excursus: The ‘General Prologue’ and the ‘Descriptio’ Tradition
- 9 Conclusions
- Appendices
- A Estates Lists
- B Chaucer, Langland and Gower
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography and List of Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Digressive references to estates are given in brackets
Rather of Verona: Praeloquia
I Christians: knights: craftsmen: doctors: merchants: advocates: judges: witnesses: public ministers: nobles: hired employees and vassals: counsellors: lords: serfs: teachers: pupils: the rich: people of moderate income: beggars.
II men: women: husbands: wives: celibates: mothers and fathers: sons and daughters: widows: virgins: children: boys: adolescents: old men.
III king.
Speculum Stukorum 2495ff.
Court of Rome: kings: spiritual pastors: abbots and priors: laity.
Chessbook
King: queen: judges: knights: vicars and legates of the king: peasants: smiths and mariners: notaries and cloth makers: merchants and changers: physicians, spicers and apothecaries: taverners, inn-keepers and victuallers: keepers of towns, customs men and toll-gatherers: ribalds, dice-players, messengers and couriers.
Apocalipsis Goliae
Bishops (pope: bishop: archdeacon: deacon): archdeacon: deacon: officials of ecclesiastical courts: priests: clergy: abbots and monks.
‘Frequenter cogitans’
Bishops: (usurers): merchants: knights: peasants: bishops, priests, presbyters: monks, abbots.
‘Virifratres, servi Dei’
Pope: cardinals: bishops: priests: canons regular: monks and nuns: friars: emperor: kings: counts, earls, barons, knights: citizens, nobles: commons: sailors and landholders: merchants.
‘Totum regit saeculum’
Pope: cardinals: king: bishops: abbots: monks: friars: knights: rectors and priests: clerks: burgesses: merchants: peasants: beggars.
Sermones nulli parcentes
Pope: cardinals: patriarchs: bishops: prelates generally: monks: crusaders: lay-brothers: wandering monks: secular priests: lawyers and physicians: scholars: wanderers: nuns: emperor: kings: princes and counts: knights: nobles: squires: citizens: merchants: tradesmen: messengers, usurers, hucksters, gamblers, thieves and pimps: peasants: women: friars.
Vox Clamantis
III Prelates: priests, clergy generally: pope: curates: clerks.
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- Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire , pp. 203 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973