Ambiguous Brotherhood in the Friar's Tale and Summoner's Tale

Author / Editor
Jost, Jean E.

Title
Ambiguous Brotherhood in the Friar's Tale and Summoner's Tale

Published
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 77-90.

Description
Analyzes the fraternal and potentially sexual attraction between the Friar and the Summoner by focusing on Chaucer's conception of brotherhood and the male relationships in FrPT and SumPT.

Alternative Title
Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.
Summoner and His Tale.