Some Notes on the 'Summoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Kanno, Masahiko.

Title
Some Notes on the 'Summoner's Tale'

Published
Bulletin of the Aichi University of Education (Humanities) 43 (1994): 1-13.

Description
Friar John is guilty of the sin of gluttony, which he discusses. Diction relating to foodstuffs recurs throughout SumT, as does "in-and-out" imagery, culminating in scatological diction that reflects John's degraded state of mind.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.