Faux Semblants: Antifraternalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Geltner, G.
Faux Semblants: Antifraternalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer
- Published
- Studies in Philology 101 (2004): 357-81.
- Description
- Reexamines antimendicancy in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" and in CT, suggesting that Jean's portraits of friars should be seen primarily as portraits of hypocrisy and that Chaucer's portrayals of friars (especially in SumT) are mediated by the opinions of narrators. Like Jean, Chaucer depicts hypocrisy in individualized portraits that are not merely antifraternal.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.