An Alchemical Freedom Flight: Linking the Manciple's Tale to the Second Nun's and Canon's Yeoman's Tales

Author / Editor
Weil, Eric.

Title
An Alchemical Freedom Flight: Linking the Manciple's Tale to the Second Nun's and Canon's Yeoman's Tales

Published
Medieval Perspectives 6 (1991): 162-70.

Description
Fragments VIII and IX are connected by opposed images of sight and blindness, idleness and work. Themes of alchemical transformation and restraints on freedom (food, mates, language) also link the fragments.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.