Chaucer's Merchant and the Sin Against Nature

Author / Editor
Field, P. J. C.

Title
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