The 'Summoner's Tale': 1955-69

Author / Editor
Crowther, J. D. W.

Title
The 'Summoner's Tale': 1955-69

Published
Chaucer Newsletter 2.1 (1980): 12-13.

Description
The Friar, who does not want Thomas to divide his money among several confessors, argues that likewise an ill man should not divide his among several physicians. He thus materializes the penitential injuction not to divide one's confession among several confessors (see ParsT 1006).

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and his Tale.