Chaucer's Ascetical Images
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Chaucer's Ascetical Images
- Published
- Christianity & Literature 28.4 (1979): 19-26.
- Description
- Chaucer is the rule for vernacular poets rather than the exception. His appropriation of monastic patterns of thought and ascetic ideas and imagery were a tradition already becoming a classic in his time. In CT, the Summoner's portrait, the Pardoner's portrait, and the friar of SumT all adhere to and exemplify the exegetical traditions of Christian asceticism. Most significant is the manner in which Chaucer makes traditional exegetical details his own.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.