Doer of the Word: The Epistle of St. James as a Source for Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale'

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
Doer of the Word: The Epistle of St. James as a Source for Chaucer's 'Manciple's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 17 (1983): 250-54.

Description
In Chaucer's day the Epistle was regarded as canonical. In James 3.3-10, the theme is the tongue, the use and abuse of language--the theme not only of the Manciple's mother's advice but of the tale itself.

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