Chaucer and Erasmus on the Pilgrimage to Canterbury: An Iconographic Speculation
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John (V).
Chaucer and Erasmus on the Pilgrimage to Canterbury: An Iconographic Speculation
- Published
- Thomas J. Heffernan, ed. The Popular Literature of Medieval England (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1985), pp. 148-66.
- Description
- Proposes that Erasmus's satiric "Peregrinatio religionis ergo"--detailing a pilgrimage to Canterbury--is influenced by the cynicism of Chaucer's CT. The parodies on "dulia" and "latria" in KnT, of Moses and Aaron in the Pardoner and Summoner, and other binary contrasts suggest that Chaucer's pilgrimage contains elements of disbelief hitherto unnoticed.
- Alternative Title
- The Popular Literature of Medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Canterbury Tales--General.