The Lady, the Swineherd, and Chaucer's Clerk

Author / Editor
Carruthers, Mary J.

Title
The Lady, the Swineherd, and Chaucer's Clerk

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 221-34.

Description
Some medieval readers or hearers would have considered ClT incredible or cruel. The Clerk agrees with the Wife that gentilesse means "trouthe," fidelity and integrity.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.