Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Lloyd, Joanna.

Title
Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
Explicator 47 (1989): 3-4.

Description
Interprets the pear and enclosed garden of MerT by the Christian iconography of a medieval painting of Saint Barbara in an enclosed garden. Lloyd finds both January and May choosing the garden of pleasure over the love of Christ or of Mary.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.