Why the Monk?

Author / Editor
Wenzel, Siegfried.

Title
Why the Monk?

Published
Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe, eds. Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson (Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 261-69.

Description
Surveys attempts to explain how MkT is appropriate to the Monk as teller, and cites examples from monastic preaching of associations of "the monastic profession and an interest in historical examples of misfortune."

Alternative Title
Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.