Chaucer's Merchant and the Sin Against Nature
- Author / Editor
- Field, P. J. C.
Chaucer's Merchant and the Sin Against Nature
- Published
- N&Q 215 (1970): 84-86.
- Description
- Considers evidence that January's knife-image ("Ne hurte hymselven with his owene knyf"; MerT 5.1840) when commenting on sexual relations with his wife may have indicated to some members of a medieval audience that he was "a sexual pervert of the worst kind."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale