The Pendant in the Chaucer Portraits
- Author / Editor
- Davis, R. Evan.
The Pendant in the Chaucer Portraits
- Published
- Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 193-95.
- Description
- A pendant is usually conjectured to be a "penner," a pencase, emblematic of the poet's profession. It is, however, more likely to be an ampulla, a lead vial supposedly containing blood from the martyr of Saint Thomas of Canterbury.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.