Poet and Sinner: Literary Characterization and the Mentality of the Late Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Braswell, Mary Flowers.

Title
Poet and Sinner: Literary Characterization and the Mentality of the Late Middle Ages

Published
Fifteenth-Century Studies 10 (1984): 39-56.

Description
Chaucer's use of penitential motifs is ironic, as seen in the Host. ParsT is a penitential manual.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Parson and His Tale.