Chaucer and the Friars.
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Arnold.
Chaucer and the Friars.
- Published
- Speculum 28, no. 3 (1953): 499–513.
- Description
- Offers history of the rise of the mendicant orders and details the development of anti-fraternal criticism as background to the characterizations of Chaucer's Friar and the friar in SumT. Compares "point by point" Chaucer's characters with the "chief documents in the attack" on friars, identifying many parallels and showing that "Chaucer's treatment of the friars" echoes the Latin writings of William St Amour and Richard FitzRalph and related vernacular works
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations