Why Does the Miller's Tale Take Place on Monday?
- Author / Editor
- Hirsh, John C.
Why Does the Miller's Tale Take Place on Monday?
- Published
- English Language Notes 13 (1975): 89-90.
- Description
- In forecasting Monday as the date of the flood, Nicholas seized on John's belief in current superstitions of the day's ill reputation, due both to its etymological association with the unstable moon and to the tradition of certain "perilous Mondays," derived from a tenuous connection with the Egyptian Calendar.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.