Millstones: An Approach to the 'Miller's Tale' and the 'Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
Herzman, Ronald B.

Title
Millstones: An Approach to the 'Miller's Tale' and the 'Reeve's Tale'

Published
English Record 27.2 (1977): 18-21, 26.

Description
The fabliaux must be studied in terms of inversion--the world upside down--evoking the chaos of Dante's hell. They reflect Pauline and Augustinian dichotomies between the flesh and the spirit, the City of Man and the City of God.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
Reeve and His Tale.