Nero's Nets and Seneca's Veins: A New Source for the 'Monk's Tale'?

Author / Editor
DiMarco, Vincent.

Title
Nero's Nets and Seneca's Veins: A New Source for the 'Monk's Tale'?

Published
Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 384-92.

Description
Suggests that the source for Nero's fishing nets of golden thread and for the cutting of both Seneca's arms as he lies in the bathtub come from the unedited "Alphabetum narrationum," ca. 1308.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.