Constantinus Africanus and Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale."

Author / Editor
Delany, Paul.

Title
Constantinus Africanus and Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale."

Published
Philological Quarterly 46 (1967): 560-66.

Description
Examines the allusion to Constantinus Africanus's "De Coitu" in MerT 4.1810-11, suggesting that knowledge of the treatise helps us to understand that January's consumption of aphrodisiacs is "manically compulsive" and sinful.

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