Daun Piers and Dom Pier: Waterless Fish and Unholy Hunters
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Daun Piers and Dom Pier: Waterless Fish and Unholy Hunters
- Published
- Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 287-94.
- Description
- For his portrait of the Monk in GP, Chaucer probably recalled Dante "Paradiso" 21.118-20, 127-35, an encomium of Peter Damian, and Damian's own words regarding "unholy hunters, cloisterless monks, and waterless fish." "Palfrey" may be an echo of Dante's "palafreni." Daun Piers may even recall Dom Pier, Peter Damian himself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.