The Development and Decline of British Antifraternal Literature

Author / Editor
Brim, Constance E.

Title
The Development and Decline of British Antifraternal Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 156A.

Description
Latin and French antifraternal works preceded English ones, which display a distinctive treaatment of friars as peddlars,as in Chaucer's SumT. In the Renaissance, antifraternal writing gradually disappeared from Britain, along with the friars.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.
Friar and His Tale.