Grammar, Manhood, and Tears: The Curiosity of Chaucer's Monk

Author / Editor
Olsson, Kurt.

Title
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.