'As just as is a squyre' : The Politics of 'Lewed Translacion' in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Somerset, Fiona.
'As just as is a squyre' : The Politics of 'Lewed Translacion' in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 187-207, 1999.
- Description
- SumT reflects contemporary controversy about the loss of clerical prerogative. The translation of Latin to English in the Tale, as well as its transfer of clerical authority and power to the laity, indicates Chaucer's lampooning of the posturing of the clergy in ways that go beyond contemporary Wycliffite critiques (e.g., Dialogue between a Secular and a Friar and Dialogue between a Clerk and a Knight).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.