Tree Paradigms in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Annunziata, Anthony.

Title
Tree Paradigms in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
P. E. Szarmach and B. S. Levy, eds. The Fourteenth Century. Acta 4. Binghampton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY, Binghampton, 1977), pp. 125-35,

Description
The tree paradigms in MerT are illuminated by the etymological kinship of "tree" and "true," by the tree's biblical and allegorical implications, and by evocations of the Tree of Jesse and trees of virtues and vices.

Contributor
Szarmach, P. E.,
Levy, B. S.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Fourteenth Century.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale.