Another French Source for "The Merchant's Tale."

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph E.

Title
Another French Source for "The Merchant's Tale."

Published
Romance Notes 8 (1966): 109-12.

Description
Argues that aspects of the beginning of MerT (including January's ill health, the names Placebo and Justinus, etc.) may have been inspired by details and sentiments found in "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour-Landry."

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