Chaucer's Old Men

Author / Editor
Russell, J. Stephen.

Title
Chaucer's Old Men

Published
Medieval Perspectives 23 (2008 [2011]): 85-96.

Description
Gauges what "old age" may have meant to Chaucer and his contemporaries, especially as it relates to memory and the humours. Then comments on several old men in Chaucer's works: January in MerT, the Old Man of PardT, old men in Mel, and Egeus of TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Tale of Melibee
Troilus and Criseyde