Archers' Feathers in Chaucer and Ascham.
- Author / Editor
- Test, George A.
Archers' Feathers in Chaucer and Ascham.
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 2.5 (1964): 67-68.
- Description
- Adduces the testimony of modern archer, Robert P. Elmer, corroborating that peacock feathers are high quality material for fletching, and a notion thought to underlie Chaucer's reference in the GP description of the Yeoman (1.104).
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales