The Twenty-Nine Pilgrims and the Three Priests.

Author / Editor
Owen, Charles A.

Title
The Twenty-Nine Pilgrims and the Three Priests.

Published
Modern Language Notes 76 (1961): 392-97.

Description
Offers surmises and suggestions about the number of GP pilgrims, professional groupings of them, and a two-stage "development" of GP--an early set of fourteen descriptions written ca. 1387-88 and a later revision, ca. 1396, that reflects plans for further adjustments. Includes attention to rhymes linking several sets of the descriptions.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification