Dimensions of Judgment in the Canterbury Tales: Friar, Summoner, Pardoner, Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Borroff, Marie.

Title
Dimensions of Judgment in the Canterbury Tales: Friar, Summoner, Pardoner, Wife of Bath

Published
Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, The Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 3-49.

Description
Wycliffite elements of SumT and of the GP description of the Friar are submerged, but Chaucer sympathized with Wycliffite thought and believed that the Summoner's friar was damned. Borroff surveys anti-fraternal tradition, comments on Fals-Semblant of Roman de la Rose as a source of Chaucer's Friar Hubert and Friar John (and of Chaucer's Pardoner), and notes Wycliffite elements both in WBP (helping to unify Part 3 of CT) and in the GP description of the Parson.

Alternative Title
Traditions and Renewals

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.
Summoner and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.