Chaucer's 'The Parson's Tale'

Author / Editor
Rudat, Wolfgang (E.) H.

Title
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.