A Look at Chaucer and His Preachers
- Author / Editor
- Gallick, Susan.
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.