The Development and Decline of British Antifraternal Literature
- Author / Editor
- Brim, Constance E.
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.