The Science of Flatulence: Possible Sources for the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Hasenfratz, Robert.
The Science of Flatulence: Possible Sources for the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 241-61.
- Description
- The source for SumT 2253-79 can be found in the medieval notion of the "wheel of the twelve winds," where each wind (depicted in manuscript art as a "spoke") ends in the mouth of a human face. Such a motif was associated not only with atmospheric conditions in scientific texts but also with the scholastic-scientific traditions parodied by SumT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.