Chaucer's Canterbury Mare
- Author / Editor
- Gillam, Doreen M. E.
Chaucer's Canterbury Mare
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 88 (1987): 192-99.
- Description
- The charged "psychological context" of the GP description of the Pardoner as a mare can be partly reconstructed on linguistic evidence. Later English usage, as well as earlier French and Old Norse citations, indicates that the noun commonly meant "effeminate homosexual."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies