Anticlericalism in Boccaccio and Chaucer : The Bark and the Bite
- Author / Editor
- Georgianna, Linda.
Anticlericalism in Boccaccio and Chaucer : The Bark and the Bite
- Published
- Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 148-73.
- Description
- Examines the complexity of anticlericalism. Clerical figures are prominent in the works of both Boccaccio and Chaucer, but CT redirects the potential disruption of anticlerical complaint away from dissent and toward self-evaluation. Georgianna gives sustained attention to FrT and PardT.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.