Anticlericalism in Boccaccio and Chaucer : The Bark and the Bite

Author / Editor
Georgianna, Linda.

Title
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.