From Twelve Devouring Dragons to the Develes Ers: The Medieval History of an Apocryphal Punitive Motif
- Author / Editor
- Kabir, Ananya Jahanara.
From Twelve Devouring Dragons to the Develes Ers: The Medieval History of an Apocryphal Punitive Motif
- Published
- Archiv 238: 280-98. , 2001.
- Description
- Traces the history of the motif of infernal punishment in the devil's anus, suggesting that the earliest evidence of the motif is found in the "Seven Heavens Apocryphon" of Irish visionary tradition and that Chaucer's use of the motif in SumP derives from this tradition, perhaps inflected by the "Visio sancti Pauli."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.