Chaucer's Parson and the Specter of Wycliffism
- Author / Editor
- Little, Katherine.
Chaucer's Parson and the Specter of Wycliffism
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 225-53, 2001.
- Description
- ParsPT and the GP description of the Parson reflect "concerns over the limits of late-medieval pastoral language." While the GP Parson suggests Wycliffite emphasis on Scripture, one finds a more orthodox view in ParsPT, with its focus on self-reformation through penance. The "disunity" of ParsT--an innovative vernacular articulation of contrition combined with a traditional catalog of sins--shows Chaucer exploring issues of language and lay instruction prompted by Wycliffite discourse.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Language and Word Studies.