Chaucer's Monk: The Rochester Connection
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Chaucer's Monk: The Rochester Connection
- Published
- Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 246-56.
- Description
- The reference to Rochester just before MkT helps explain the choice of teller, the nature of the tale, and the narrator's refusal to "pleye" when he is interrupted. Rochester Cathedral included a monastic house; it contained a mural of Fortune's Wheel; and its bishop, Thomas Brinton, preached against monastic corruption.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.