Anticlerical Satire as Theological Essay: Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Anticlerical Satire as Theological Essay: Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Thalia 6:1 (1983): 5-22.
- Description
- In SumT, anticlerical polemic serves the religious argument of Chaucer's conservative faith. The caricature of the Friar is purposeful and schematic: the tale mocks his carnality and literalness and calls into question the administration of penance by "vessels of mercy" who are really "vessels of wrath," informed by iconography.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.