The Friar's Rent

Author / Editor
Jeffrey, David Lyle.

Title
The Friar's Rent

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 70 (1971): 600-06.

Description
Explains Chaucer's use of "rente" to describe the Friar in GP 1.256, clarifying that it means service to God due to his vocation (not monetary rent) and contributes to Chaucer's satire of the Friar. Compares Chaucer's other uses of the term.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale
Language and Word Studies