'By 'corpus dominus': Harry Bailly as False Spiritual Guide

Author / Editor
Cowgill, Bruce Kent.

Title
'By 'corpus dominus': Harry Bailly as False Spiritual Guide

Published
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985): 157-81.

Description
With comic irony Chaucer contrasts Harry Bailly with the Monk and with Dante's Virgil. The Host is a failed spiritual guide and a burlesque Christ-mass priest.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.