Chaucer's Miller's Curious Characters

Author / Editor
Hatton, Thomas J.

Title
Chaucer's Miller's Curious Characters

Published
Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 02 (1993): 81-89.

Description
Both the Miller and characters in his "Tale" exhibit "curiositas," defined by medieval Church fathers as the exercise of curiosity in pursuit of idle knowledge, i.e., knowledge not directly leading to salvation.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.