Pope Gregory's 'Liber Regulae Pastoralis' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Bennett, Helen T.
Pope Gregory's 'Liber Regulae Pastoralis' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 9 (1994): 24-40.
- Description
- Bennett artues that the pilgrimage frame of CT was influenced by Gregory's "Liber," particularly in presenting "a range of human types" and in suiting pastoral care to individual exigencies. The "Liber" has particular applications to Chaucer's Reeve, Franklin, Summoner, Pardoner, and Parson. The Parson's "if gold ruste" is indebted to Gregory, not the French analogues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.