The Fraternal Kiss in Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Kellogg, Alfred L.

Title
The Fraternal Kiss in Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale."

Published
Scriptorium: Revue Internationale Des Etudes Relatives Aux Manuscrits / International Review of Manuscript Studies 7 (1953): 115.

Description
Confirms that the friar's kiss of Thomas' wife in SumT is unseemly, adducing passages from Gower's "Vox Clamantis" and the "Regimen Animarum" that express concern about dangers of clerical kissing.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale