"Lucre of Vileyne": Chaucer's Prioress and the Canonists.
- Author / Editor
- Yunck, John A.
"Lucre of Vileyne": Chaucer's Prioress and the Canonists.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 205 (1960): 165-66.
- Description
- Acknowledges the association of "lucre of vileyne" (PrT 7.491) with "turpe lucrum" (filthy lucre) found in the Vulgate 1 Timothy 3.8 and quoted in the Ellemere gloss, but specifies that the phrase, a "technical legal term" of canon law, was a matter of selling, distinct from usurious loaning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies