Chaucer's Wheel of False Religion: Theology and Obscenity in the 'Summoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Kolve, V. A.

Title
Chaucer's Wheel of False Religion: Theology and Obscenity in the 'Summoner's Tale'

Published
Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 265-96.

Description
Wheel iconography associated with Hugh of Foilloy's treatise, "The Wheel of True and False Religion," may have influenced the plotting of the divided fart in SumT.

Alternative Title
The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.