Lords, Churls, and Friars: The Return to Social Order in The Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Georgianna, Linda.
Lords, Churls, and Friars: The Return to Social Order in The Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 149-72.
- Description
- In SumT, exchanges between the friar and the lord of the manor illuminate the friar's bourgeois relationship with Thomas. When Thomas "pays" the friar with a fart, and the friar appeals to the social hierarchy represented by the feudal lord of the manor, the friar's social aspirations are "sharply but comically checked."
- Alternative Title
- Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.