'Hooly Chirches Blood': Simony and Patrimony in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
Plummer, John F.

Title
'Hooly Chirches Blood': Simony and Patrimony in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1983): 49-60.

Description
In his portrait of the village parson, the Reeve uses the language of traditional complaint literature, especially in attacking simony.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.