A Look at Chaucer and His Preachers

Author / Editor
Gallick, Susan.

Title
A Look at Chaucer and His Preachers

Published
Speculum 50 (1975): 456-76.

Description
Chaucer used elements of the formal features and conventions of medieval sermons to explore character and inter-personal relationships, examining the dynamics of preachers' interactions with their congregations and often parodying the imitative tendencies of laymen. Patterns and varieties of medieval sermons are described.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.