The Merchant's Lombard Knight.
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Paul A.
The Merchant's Lombard Knight.
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 3 (1961): 259-63.
- Description
- Explores the Merchant's "animus toward Italians or, at least, toward Lombards from Pavia" in his characterization of January. Responding to the Clerk's view of Lombards, the Merchant reflects late-medieval English malice against Italian commercial competitors, especially Pavians, who were associated with usury. Summarizes Lombard involvement in English wool trade.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale