The Reve Was a Sclendre Colerik Man

Author / Editor
McDonald, Richard B.

Title
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.