Privy Speech: Sacred Silence, Dirty Secrets in the Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hayes, Mary.
Privy Speech: Sacred Silence, Dirty Secrets in the Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 263-88.
- Description
- Allusions in SumT to the "silent canon" - the clerical practice of offering the Eucharistic consecration prayers silently - open a window on "lay-clerical relations," exposing the politics governing access to the secrets of the Eucharist. Through its critique of the silent canon, SumT "endorses lay private devotional speech," while questioning the capacity for any human discourse to "communicate with the divine or aptly articulate sacred mysteries."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.