Consent and "Lemman" in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Reeve's Tale.”

Author / Editor
Morrison, Susan Signe.

Title
Consent and "Lemman" in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Reeve's Tale.”

Published
Notes and Queries 266.1 (2021): 45-49.

Description
Contemplates the word "lemman" in Malyne's dawn song of RvT: its connotations elsewhere in Chaucer's corpus indicate that it names her experience the night before as sexual assault.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies