'Fer in the north, I kan nat telle where': Gentility and Provincialism in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
King, Andy.

Title
'Fer in the north, I kan nat telle where': Gentility and Provincialism in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Published
Nottingham Medieval Studies 57 (2013): 89-100.

Description
Argues that the name "Strother" in RvT is not a place name but a surname, and suggests a connection between the tale's fictional clerks, John and Aleyn, and two junior members of the prominent Strother family of Northumberland.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale