May in January's Tree: Genealogical Configuration in the Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin.
May in January's Tree: Genealogical Configuration in the Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 45 (2010): 106-17.
- Description
- Comments on the concern with propagating robust and pure lineages in numerous areas of medieval culture--including Chaucer's ClT, KnT, and MerT in particular. The denouement of the latter may be read as May's inserting herself into January's family tree, even as she foils his desire for "leveful" offspring by arranging "the prospect of offspring from a more attractive source."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale