Un chroniqueur liegeois sur la route de Canterbury

Author / Editor
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.

Title
Un chroniqueur liegeois sur la route de Canterbury

Published
Bulletin de la Societe Royale Le Vieux-Liege 13 (1997): 707-18.

Description
Argues that the GP portrait of the Monk evokes Jean le Bel, chronicler of Edward III, and suggests that MkT is a poetic chronicle. With the Knight and the Prioress, the Monk is evidence that contemporary personalities and events lie behind CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.
Knight and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.