'Shot Wyndowe' (Miller's Tale, 1.3358 and 3695) : An Open and Shut Case?
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter.
'Shot Wyndowe' (Miller's Tale, 1.3358 and 3695) : An Open and Shut Case?
- Published
- Medium Ævum 69: 96-103, 2000.
- Description
- Questions the traditional gloss of "shot wyndowe," arguing that the words refer to a window that opens inward, that is unglazed, and that, in MilT, is a window to a privy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.