Sittingbourne and the Order of "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Greenfield, Stanley B.

Title
Sittingbourne and the Order of "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Modern Language Review 48 (1953): 51–52.

Description
Rejects arguments that references to "Sittingbourne" at WBT (3.847), "towne" in SumT (3.2294), and "Rouchestre" (7.1926) are inconsistent with the order of CT found in the Ellesmere manuscript, claiming that "towne" is a "tag-word" that does not necessarily refer to Sittingbourne and hence poses no geographical inconsistency.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Maanuscripts and Textual Studies