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PIERS1. Daun Piers is the monk who makes the pilgrimage to Canterbury, Gen Prol 165-207. He is a monastic outrider and loves hunting. Although Bailly does not know his name at first, MkP 1928-1930, and asks if his name is "Daun Albon," "Daun John," or "Daun Thomas," all traditional names for monks, he discovers that it is Piers by the time the monk has finished his tale, NPP 1792.
Piers is the Anglo-Norman form of French Pierre.
P.E. Beichner, "Daun Piers, Monk and Business Administrator." Speculum 34 (1959): 611-619; O.F. Emerson, "Some of Chaucer's Lines on the Monk." MP I (1903): 105-115; J.V. Fleming, "Daun Piers and Dom Pier: Waterless Fish and Unholy Hunters." ChauR 15 (1981): 287-294; R.B. White, "Chaucer's Daun Piers and the Rule of St. Benedict: The Failure of an Ideal." JEGP 70 (1971): 13-30.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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