Chaucer's Allusion to the Sermon on the Mount in the 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Black, Robert.
Chaucer's Allusion to the Sermon on the Mount in the 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 55:1 (1985): 23-32.
- Description
- MilT 3589-92 alludes to Matt. 5:27-30, where Christ condemns lechery, using the images of hand and eye. Chaucer uses the same imagery to condemn the lecher Nicholas, whose punishment is to be burned a "hand-brede aboute" his "nether ye." The same allusion and imagery appear in ParsT, where lechery is described as the cause of Noah's flood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.