The Miller's Bagpipe: A Note on the 'Canterbury Tales' A565-566

Author / Editor
Boenig, Robert.

Title
The Miller's Bagpipe: A Note on the 'Canterbury Tales' A565-566

Published
English Language Notes 21 (1983): 1-6.

Description
The medieval bagpipe was featured in Nativity scenes, depictions of angels, and royal occasions. The Miller's bagpipe was a soft, pleasant, courtly, even celestial instrument--in subtly ironic contrast to his character.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.