Reynard the Fox and the Smithfield Decretals.

Author / Editor
Varty, Kenneth.

Title
Reynard the Fox and the Smithfield Decretals.

Published
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 26 (1963): 347-54.

Description
Identifies similarities and differences between marginal illustrations in the Smithfield Decretals (British Museum Royal MS. 10 E.iv) and narrative motifs in versions of the "Roman de Renart," commenting briefly on the presence of the distaff in the chase scene of NPT (7.3384) as well as in the Decretals.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion