Chaucer's 'The Parson's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang (E.) H.
Chaucer's 'The Parson's Tale'
- Published
- Explicator 42 (1983): 6-8.
- Description
- The Parson's attribution of a statement on the Crucifixion to Saint Augustine has never been identified; it may be a "Freudian slip," or it may originate in Augustine's detailed discussion of prelapsarian v. postlapsarian sexuality ("The City of God" 14).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.