Chaucer's Portraits of the Pardoner and Summoner and Wycliff's 'Tractatus de Simonia'
- Author / Editor
- McVeigh, Terrence A.
Chaucer's Portraits of the Pardoner and Summoner and Wycliff's 'Tractatus de Simonia'
- Published
- Classical Folia 29 (1975): 54-58.
- Description
- Tradition relates the sin of simony to leprosy and sodomy, as evidenced by John Wyclif's "Tractatus De Simonia." The physical abnormalities of the Pardoner and Summoner in CT can thus be seen as symbolic of their simony.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.