'Lo, Swilk a Complyn': Musical Topicality in the Reeve's and Miller's Tales

Author / Editor
Tavormina, M. Teresa.

Title
'Lo, Swilk a Complyn': Musical Topicality in the Reeve's and Miller's Tales

Published
Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 141-50.

Description
The names of the students in RvT recall the court musician John Aleyn, contemporary of Chaucer and composer of the motet "Sub arturo plebs."
The self-conscious Englishness of the motet--plus its inclusion of the name Nicholas--correlates in intriguing ways with musical allusions in RvT and MilT.

Alternative Title
The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff.

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