Carnival Food Imagery in Chaucer's Description of the Franklin
- Author / Editor
- Jonassen, Frederick B.
Carnival Food Imagery in Chaucer's Description of the Franklin
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 99-117.
- Description
- Documents the medieval traditions of the Land of Cockaigne and the Battle of Carnival and Lent, suggesting that they underlie the reference to the seasonal cycle of meat and fish in the Franklin's GP sketch. Such traditions adumbrate the Renaissance carnivalesque tradition theorized by Bakhtin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.