The Reve Was a Sclendre Colerik Man
- Author / Editor
- McDonald, Richard B.
The Reve Was a Sclendre Colerik Man
- Published
- Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 288-99.
- Description
- Describes what it meant to be a reeve in terms of social status, day-to-day life, and relations with people of other professions, especially clerks. The viciousness of the Reeve of GP and RvT is consistent with what medieval people expected of reeves.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Reeve and His Tale.