Dante, Alain de Lille, and the Ending of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Kensak, Michael Alan.

Title
Dante, Alain de Lille, and the Ending of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 817A.

Description
Entry into heaven and the approach to God properly conclude a pilgrimage, as represented by Dante and Alain de Lille. In ManPT, Chaucer inverts the topos to show logic and language vitiated (not transcended) as the Cook becomes literally drunk (not spiritually inebriated), and "the Host rededicates the pilgrimage to Bacchus."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Manciple and His Tale.