Heresy and Springtime Ritual: Biblical and Classical Allusions in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Heresy and Springtime Ritual: Biblical and Classical Allusions in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 54 (1976): 823-36.
- Description
- The imitation in GP's opening of Virgil's Second "Georgic" suggests a sexual motivation for the pilgrimage and some of the stories. This allusive effect is seen in MerT but it affects other tales and portraits, e.g. the Prioress's. Similarly Horace relates to the springtime ritual particularly in MilT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.