'My Spirit Hath His Fostering in the Bible': The Summoner's Tale and the Holy Spirit

Author / Editor
Ruud, Jay.

Title
'My Spirit Hath His Fostering in the Bible': The Summoner's Tale and the Holy Spirit

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. 125-48.

Description
Examines the multiple meanings of "spirit" in SumT as clarified by scriptural and patristic tradition, exposing satire of friars.

Alternative Title
Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.