And Was a Poure Persoun of a Toun

Author / Editor
Smith, Esther M. G.

Title
And Was a Poure Persoun of a Toun

Published
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 256-62.

Description
Comments on ecclesiastical reform of the late Middle Ages as background to the Parson's sketch in GP and presents ParsT as a confessional manual.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.