Chaucer and the Medieval Miller.
- Author / Editor
- Jones, George Fenwick.
Chaucer and the Medieval Miller.
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 16 (1955): 3-15
- Description
- Clarifies the typicality of Chaucer's Miller by identifying characteristics that "were commonly ascribed to millers in late-medieval literature." Like analogous miller's, he is "is red-haired, coarse-featured, socially ambitious, muscular, well-armed, vulgar, drunken, stupid, and dishonest; and he associates with the reeve." Despite "many individual traits and a convincing personality," the Miller "conforms to the medieval concept of what a miller should be."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Sources,m Analogues, and Literary Relations