Chaucer's Vision of the Tree of Life : Crossing the Road with the Rood in the Parson's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Twu, Krista Sue-Lo.
Chaucer's Vision of the Tree of Life : Crossing the Road with the Rood in the Parson's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 341-78.
- Description
- Although ParsT relies heavily on Raymond de Penaforte's "Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio," Chaucer extracts one chapter from the treatise and substitutes a "tree of life" for Raymond's pilgrimage metaphor. By indicating that one can live a life of religion here in this world, Chaucer adapts his work to the fourteenth century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.