Jealousy: Chaucer's Miller and the Tradition

Author / Editor
Smith, Charles R.

Title
Jealousy: Chaucer's Miller and the Tradition

Published
ChauR 43 (2008): 16-47.

Description
Chaucer's audience would have considered the Miller's apparent lack of jealousy toward his wife in the context of a long-standing teaching that jealousy has a salutary side. According to that view, "[w]hoever is not jealous does not love."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale