January, Knight of Lombardy

Author / Editor
Beidler, Peter G.

Title
January, Knight of Lombardy

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 735-38.

Description
Summarizes the plot of French fabliau "BeĢrenger au long cul" and suggests that it helps to "explain the background upon which Chaucer was drawing when he decided to make January a knight of Lombardy" in MerT.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations