'Lo, Swilk a Complyn': Musical Topicality in the Reeve's and Miller's Tales
- Author / Editor
- Tavormina, M. Teresa.
'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.