Grammar, Manhood, and Tears: The Curiosity of Chaucer's Monk
- Author / Editor
- Olsson, Kurt.
Grammar, Manhood, and Tears: The Curiosity of Chaucer's Monk
- Published
- Modern Philology 76 (1978): 1-17.
- Description
- Chaucer's hedonist monk tells unexpectedly conservative tales. But his "accessus" and first four tales betray him as a "grammaticus" bent on "curiositas," evoked by hunting (Augustine) and "vagatio" (Peter Damian). The rest define "what is man" by an inverted Boethian progress through tearful spectacles satisfying "curiositas."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.