Fables, Cupiditas, and Vessels of Tree : Chaucer's Use of The Epistles to Timothy

Author / Editor
Plummer, John F.

Title
Fables, Cupiditas, and Vessels of Tree : Chaucer's Use of The Epistles to Timothy

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverenceœ": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 237-45.

Description
Considers citations of Paul's epistles to Timothy in WBPT, PardPT, and ParsPT, reading them in light of late fourteenth-century concern with preaching and pastoral care--Lollard and anti-Lollard, mendicant and antimendicant. Chaucer was concerned with the performative force of language.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Parson and His Tale
Language and Word Studies.