The "Merchant's Tale": Why Is May Called Mayus?
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson
The "Merchant's Tale": Why Is May Called Mayus?
- Published
- Chaucer Review 2.4 (1968): 273-77.
- Description
- Asks why Chaucer uses a "Latin masculine name of the month to refer to his very feminine heroine" in MerT, answering that it contributes to the theme of healing in the Tale, much as does Damyan's association with St. Damian, patron saint of healing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale