10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUILDSMEN»
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guildsmen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
guildsmen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire
71 But having added these five to the list of occupations in the Prologue, Chaucer
makes no further use of them, classing the Guildsmen together as members of 'a
solempne and greet fraternitee' and dealing with them as a group.72 They ...
2
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in ...
Literary criticism concerning the guildsmen has been primarily devoted to
establishing a rationale for their inclusion in the Canterbury Tales. Since none of
the guildsmen are mentioned again after their seventeen-line introduction in the ...
Laura C. Lambdin, Robert T. Lambdin, 1999
General Prologue 379-87 379 This line has generally been understood to signify
that the Guildsmen have hired the Cook for the duration of the pilgrimage, and
thus to imply their wealth and status. An alternative reading is proposed by ...
4
A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Simply because there were fewer of them, skilled tradesmen could command
higher prices for their labor. The resulting prosperity of people such as the five
Guildsmen, however, led to social adjustments that their hierarchical superiors
found ...
5
The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Performing Herod may have had the effect of exorcizing the guildsmen
responsible for the Herod plays of some of the ressen- timent attendant upon
their connections and affluence, and upon their ability to speak, when required,
the kind of ...
6
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
The perceptible concern of the lesser gentles to assert their dignity in material
terms becomes dominant in the five Guildsmen, who illustrate social pretension
in an unambiguous form, out of all proportion to their status as craftsmen or City ...
7
The Cambridge History of Turkey
Guildsmen. and. handicraft. producers. SURAIYA N. FAROQHI The place of
craftsmen in Ottoman society Handicraft producers were linked to each other -
and also to their suppliers, wholesalers and ultimate consumers - by a variety of
social, ...
8
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales
Robert M. Correale, Mary Hamel. The Guildsmen The guildsmen are five
burgesses of different trades whose social pretensions and aldermanic ambitions
are held up to gentle ridicule. They are treated as a group, without individualizing
traits, ...
Robert M. Correale, Mary Hamel, 2005
9
Guild Dynamics in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Fluidity and ...
In addition, even without the practical relations, the guildsmen's plea would have
found sympathy from the seyyids and ulema, not only for their Islamic rhetoric but
probably through connections in their daily religious life involving mosques, sufi ...
I was taken by Clausewitz to meet the Future guildsmen, among them of course
my father. There were only three present; the rest, I was told, were away from the
city. With these introductions finished I spoke to the other guildsmen, there being
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUILDSMEN»
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guildsmen is used in the context of the following news items.
A blooming great visit to MetLife
Mrs Christensen said she was representing Chaucer's five prosperous guildsmen, who want to be aldermen. U3A groups in New Zealand ... «Wairarapa Times-Age, Jun 15»
Will it be a hot summer? Burn a snowman
... o'clock, the bonfire below the "Boeoegg" is set alight and mounted guildsmen gallop around the pyre to the tune of the Sechselaeuten March. «Toronto Sun, Apr 15»
The Chimes by Anna Smaill review – an original dystopian debut
Those who are not part of the ruling elite, known as the Order, sign up to be apprentices or guildsmen. The “pacts” consist of unwanted urchins ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Wagner's comedy is the greatest …
... who is recognised as the leading member of the mastersingers, a group of guildsmen who defend the German language against those who ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
History weighs heavily on any attempt to root out banks collusion
Anti-competitive behaviour is harder to spot in today's City than in medieval times, when guildsmen set the price of bread or candles over drinks ... «Financial Times, Feb 15»
A Bacolod museum goes Christmas
On sight were chinaware artistically crafted by guildsmen from Canonsburg of Pennsylvania in America and the silver cutlery from Rogers, ... «Philippine Star, Dec 14»
Naomi Wood's 'Mrs. Hemingway,' and More
In Rembrandt's tableau, guildsmen strain their lace-ruffed necks to gawp as Dr. Tulp demonstrates the functioning of the dead man's tendons. «New York Times, Aug 14»
What To Do: Old-time baseball, classic cars and so much more
The well-attended annual festival features authentic Elizabethan food and drink, traditional crafts from the guildsmen of yore and old-time ... «The Unionville Times, Aug 14»
At the Taco Guild in Phoenix You'll Find Setting Over Substance
Regrettably, it seems many of the offerings at Taco Guild were created by apprentices, not master guildsmen. Maybe all the craftsmanship went ... «Phoenix New Times, Jun 14»
Obamaphelia: a Short History and Diagnostic Guide
The American historians were warned by one of their past, justly honored guildsmen. In 1948, Hofstader, in his widely read volume The ... «CounterPunch, Jan 14»
