The Pendant in the Chaucer Portraits

Author / Editor
Brosnahan, Leger.

Title
The Pendant in the Chaucer Portraits

Published
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 424-31.

Description
The pendant in the Ellesmere and Hoccleve portraits of Chaucer is a "penner" (not an ampulla, as previously argued), referring specifically to Chaucer as a writer. The penner, coupled with the rosary held by the poet in a number of portraits, "exactly specifies Chaucer as a moral poet."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.