Chaucer's Parson and the Devil's Other Hand

Author / Editor
Glowka, Arthur W.

Title
Chaucer's Parson and the Devil's Other Hand

Published
Interpretations 14.2 (1983): 15-19.

Description
Chaucer changed the order of the five steps to sin of Peraldus's "Summa de vitiis" and followed Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (10.343-44) instead. Glowka speculates on implications of change.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.