Names in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Author / Editor
Hough, Carole.

Title
Names in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale."

Published
Richard Dance and Laura Wright, eds. The Use and Development of Middle English (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 215-29.

Description
Analyzes the name "Pertelote" in NPT as "beautiful paramour" and "little beauty," and "Colle," "Talbot," and "Gerland" as dog-names. Includes recurrent concern with levels of style in Chaucer's naming and on names that link aspects of CT, e.g., "Talbot" with "Tabard."

Alternative Title
The Use and Development of Middle English.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification