'The Merchant's Tale': Why Was Januarie Born 'Of Pavye'?

Author / Editor
Brown, Emerson, Jr.

Title
'The Merchant's Tale': Why Was Januarie Born 'Of Pavye'?

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 654-58.

Description
Provides examples of medieval English stereotyping of Pavia as a "city of delight," helping to connect January of MerT with the vice of sensuality.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale