The Silences of Pilgrimage: Manciple's Tale, Paradiso, and Anticlaudianus
- Author / Editor
- Kensak, Michael.
The Silences of Pilgrimage: Manciple's Tale, Paradiso, and Anticlaudianus
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 190-206, 1999.
- Description
- The warning concerning silence in ManT derives from its penultimate position in CT and from the concept that real pilgrims are struck dumb on approaching the Holy Land (a theme echoed in Dante and de Lille). The Parson refuses to tell a tale, not because of the words of the Manciple, but because he knows that fiction is the "enemy of penitence and, thus, of man's salvation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.