The Miller's Tale and Decameron 3.4

Author / Editor
Biggs, Frederick M.

Title
The Miller's Tale and Decameron 3.4

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2009): 59-80.

Description
Biggs argues that Decameron 3.4 is a source for MilT, inspiring the latter's density of detail, its religious sentiment, and many of its narrative features, particularly the Flood story. MilP also echoes Boccaccio's "Conclusione dell'autore" and its concern with religious rather than rational judgment.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations