The Summoner and the Abominable Anatomy of Antichrist
- Author / Editor
- Fletcher, Alan J.
The Summoner and the Abominable Anatomy of Antichrist
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 91-117.
- Description
- Attests two early-fifteenth-century analogues of SumP and describes several echoes of Wycliffite antifraternal sentiment in SumT: concern with letters of fraternity and trentals (i.e., commissioned masses for the dead), venal preaching, fraternal claims to be the salt of the earth, and challenges to the Church by peasant and aristocratic classes combined. Chaucer articulates Lollard views in the Summoner's materials, but he does not affirm them.
- Revised in Alan J. Fletcher, Preaching, Politics, and Poetry in Late-Medieval England (Dublin: Four Courts, 1998).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.