Clerks and Quiting in the "Reeve's Tale."

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila

Title
Clerks and Quiting in the "Reeve's Tale."

Published
Mediaeval Studies 29 (1967): 351-56.

Description
Explores the "ambivalent status" of clerks in the Middle Ages and the significance of clerkly success in "quiting" (defeating, taking vengeance on) carpenters and millers in MilT and RvT. In the latter, Chaucer avoids "quiting" the Reeve and thereby "disassociates himself from a too-narrow definition of morality as mathematical retribution."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Miller and Hi Tale
Language and Word Studies