Chaucer the Storyteller: Folkloric Patterns in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Lindahl, Carl.

Title
Chaucer the Storyteller: Folkloric Patterns in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1981): 5204A.

Description
Records of medieval pilgrimages and parish guilds indicate that groups like that of CT actually gathered; thus the frame may have been modeled on the contemporary scene rather than a literary source. The pilgrim churls' mutual insults follow a pattern of observing ritual taboos.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.