Chaucer and the Goats of Creation
- Author / Editor
- Cigman, Gloria.
Chaucer and the Goats of Creation
- Published
- Literature and Theology 5 (1991): 162-80.
- Description
- Although elite cultural views, such as those of theologians, set the polarities of moral judgment as good and evil, vernacular writings in Middle English--including Lollard sermons, Piers Plowman, and CT--set up instead a dialectic of sin and evil. In their neglect of social and spiritual responsibilities, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner of GP, alone among the pilgrims, show themselves "totally and immutably evil."
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Friar and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale