'Shot Wyndowe' (Miller's Tale, 1.3358 and 3695) : An Open and Shut Case?

Author / Editor
Brown, Peter.

Title
'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.