New Light on Judoc the Obscure

Author / Editor
Reisner, M. E.

Title
New Light on Judoc the Obscure

Published
Chaucer Newsletter 1.2 (1979): 19-20.

Description
Adduces reports that St. Joce's relics were brought to Winchester (Hyde Abbey) in 901. The abbot of Hyde lived next to the real Tabard Inn and Chaucer may have introduced St. Joce into WBP as a bit of local lore.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.