Moses, Elijah and the Back Parts of God: Satiric Scatology in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Lancashire, Ian.
Moses, Elijah and the Back Parts of God: Satiric Scatology in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Mosaic 14 (1981): 17-30.
- Description
- Chaucer employs scriptural allusions in Thomas's gift and its codicil; typological exegesis demonstrates that, if Jankin's division of the fart suggests Pentecost, Thomas's first gift recalls the events in the lives of Moses and Elijah that Pentecost fulfills. SumT can be seen as an intentional perversion of scriptural history.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.