Carolyne Larrington teaches medieval English literature in the college, ranging from the earliest Old English to the beginning of the Renaissance period.ĭr Larrington's research interests are in Old Icelandic literature, medieval women's writing, European Arthurian literature, and, most recently, medieval emotion. In the fifth module, we think about the appearance of another married couple of in the tale – Pluto and Proserpina, here figured as the King and Queen of the Fairies – before moving on in the sixth module and the end of the tale.ĭr. In the third module, we turn to the wedding-scene itself and the introduction of the figure of Damian, before turning in the fourth module to the garden scene, focusing in particular on the symbolism of the enclosed garden and the pear tree in Medieval literature. After that, we think about the genre of the tale – a fabliau – as well as the Marriage Debate between Januarie, Justinus and Placebo that begins the tale.
We begin by thinking about the Merchant himself, who is introduced in the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales. In this course, Professor Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford) explores Geoffrey Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.
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