The Merchant's Damyan and Chaucer's Kent

Author / Editor
Brown, Emerson, Jr.

Title
The Merchant's Damyan and Chaucer's Kent

Published
Chaucer Newsletter 13:1 (1991): 5.

Description
The name "Damyan" in MerT alludes to St. Damian, whose healing talents support a pun on "lechour." Explores Chaucer's sources of knowledge of the saint.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.