Hard Lords and Bad Food-Service in the Monk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Norsworthy, Scott.
Hard Lords and Bad Food-Service in the Monk's Tale
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100: 313-32., 2001.
- Description
- In MkP, the Host associates the Monk with a sacristan or cellarer. Norsworthy surveys historical cellarers and the role of the cellarer according to the Rule of St. Benedict, connecting bad cellarers with MkT. The Monk's narratives pertain to tyrants and devourers who are supposed to be cared for (e.g., Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar), or they represent the sad plight of the victims of bad governors (e.g., Ugolino).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.