Doubting Thomas in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Clark, Roy Peter.

Title
Doubting Thomas in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 164-78.

Description
In SumT Friar John and Thomas parody significant features in the life of St. Thomas the Apostle. The probing of Thomas's body by the friar parodies the "doubting Thomas" legend. The references to St. Thomas provide a foil by which the audience may judge the actions in the tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.