Physiognomy and Chaucer's Summoner and Alisoun.

Author / Editor
Pace, George B.

Title
Physiognomy and Chaucer's Summoner and Alisoun.

Published
Traditio 18 (1962): 417-20.

Description
Offers physiognomic evidence that the Summoner's black eyebrows (GP 1.627) and those of Alisoun (MilT 1,3245-46) indicate lecherousness.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale