Sentence and Judgment: The Role of the Fiend in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
McIlhaney, Anne E.

Title
Sentence and Judgment: The Role of the Fiend in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 173-83.

Description
In CT, generally, and in MLT, FrT, PhyT, PardT, and PrT, specifically, devils act as agents of God to tempt evildoers. Although they fail, evildoers in CT are armed with the God-given ability to avoid such temptation through their reason, discretion, and wit.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Friar and His Tale.
Physician and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.