Penitential Sermons, the Manciple, and the End of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Mark.
Penitential Sermons, the Manciple, and the End of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987): 77-96.
- Description
- Wrongly used speech and counsels to silence in ManT should be read in terms of fourteenth-century Lenten sermons indicating the necessity of speech for the sacrament of penance. Like SNT and CYT, ManT with its emphasis on transformation prepares readers for the spiritual change of ParsT and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.