Provide[s] modern readers with the contextual information needed for an understanding of the Canterbury Tales... a detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's secular pilgrims.

• Introduction - Chaucer's costume rhetoric; costume rhetoric in the Knight's Portrait - Chaucer's every-knight and his "bismotered" "gypon"; Chaucer's squire - "embrouded was he"; "mottelee" - for the merchant no one knew; the Sergeant's misunderstood "medlee cote" and missing accessories; a hierarchy of blades and bags - the Franklin, Yeoman, Guildsman, Shipman, Miller, Reeve and the Pardoner; fabric as sign - the Yeoman's "grene" and the Shipman's "faldyng"; the Wife of Bath's costumes -reading the subtexts; costume rhetoric for the rising peasant class - the Miller, Knight Manque and the Plowman Miles Christi; conclusion - Chaucer the "conteor" - clother in good works.

Provide[s] modern readers with the contextual information needed for an understanding of the Canterbury Tales... a detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's secular pilgrims.

• Introduction - Chaucer's costume rhetoric; costume rhetoric in the Knight's Portrait - Chaucer's every-knight and his "bismotered" "gypon"; Chaucer's squire - "embrouded was he"; "mottelee" - for the merchant no one knew; the Sergeant's misunderstood "medlee cote" and missing accessories; a hierarchy of blades and bags - the Franklin, Yeoman, Guildsman, Shipman, Miller, Reeve and the Pardoner; fabric as sign - the Yeoman's "grene" and the Shipman's "faldyng"; the Wife of Bath's costumes -reading the subtexts; costume rhetoric for the rising peasant class - the Miller, Knight Manque and the Plowman Miles Christi; conclusion - Chaucer the "conteor" - clother in good works.

Provide[s] modern readers with the contextual information needed for an understanding of the Canterbury Tales... a detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's secular pilgrims.

• Introduction - Chaucer's costume rhetoric; costume rhetoric in the Knight's Portrait - Chaucer's every-knight and his "bismotered" "gypon"; Chaucer's squire - "embrouded was he"; "mottelee" - for the merchant no one knew; the Sergeant's misunderstood "medlee cote" and missing accessories; a hierarchy of blades and bags - the Franklin, Yeoman, Guildsman, Shipman, Miller, Reeve and the Pardoner; fabric as sign - the Yeoman's "grene" and the Shipman's "faldyng"; the Wife of Bath's costumes -reading the subtexts; costume rhetoric for the rising peasant class - the Miller, Knight Manque and the Plowman Miles Christi; conclusion - Chaucer the "conteor" - clother in good works.