'Mark Him Wel for He Is On of Þo' : Training the 'Lewed' Gaze to Discern Hypocrisy
- Author / Editor
- Somerset, Fiona.
'Mark Him Wel for He Is On of Þo' : Training the 'Lewed' Gaze to Discern Hypocrisy
- Published
- English Literary History 68: 315-34, 2001.
- Description
- Various late-medieval English texts (including the Wycliffite "Twelve Conclusions" and Roger Dymmok's "Reply" and other Wycliffite discourse) reflect "anxiety" about laypeople's inabilities to discern clerical hypocrisy. In FrT, Chaucer distinguishes between the summoner's lack of discernment and the astute discernment of the devil and the old lady. Also considers the hypocrisy of the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.