'Ars-metrik': Science, Satire, and Chaucer's Summoner

Description: Fragment III of CT reflects ironically on a mechanistic view of life, a scientific method that could be applied even to purely logical problems, and the movement away from authoritative (or public) to experimental (or private) solutions.; Chaucer develops a comparison in GP between the Summoner and mechanical devices; uses the scientific quest to shape the plot of FrT and SumT, associating scientific and demonic activities; and in SumT further develops connections between technology or quantitative science and demonic/anal activities.