Chaucer's Characterization of the Canon and His Yeoman.

Author / Editor
Grennen, Joseph E.

Title
Chaucer's Characterization of the Canon and His Yeoman.

Published
Journal of the History of Ideas 25 (1964): 279-84.

Description
Identifies details of the characterization of the Canon and his Yeoman in CYP that derive from alchemical practice and materials, including the Canon's "distillation" (perspiration) and "mercurial" personality and his Yeoman's transformation and ruddy visage.

Chaucer Subjects
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations