Ineloquent Ends: 'Simplicitas,' Proctolalia, and the Profane Vernacular in the 'Miller's Tale'

Description: Aligns vernacularity with visual and verbal profanity, observing occurrences in MilPT in which Chaucer "indulges in vernacular eschatology" and "moves to suppress it." Heyworth reads the window scene of MilT in light of medieval guides to prognostication by thunder ("brotology"), misericordes, and pilgrims' badges, exposing late medieval concerns with the oppositions between oral and literate, vernacular and Latinate, profane and sacred--oppositions that Chaucer "collapses" in his rehearsal of profanity and apology for it.