'By Extorcions I Lyve': Chaucer's Friar's Tale and Corrupt Officials
- Author / Editor
- Bryant, Brantley L.
'By Extorcions I Lyve': Chaucer's Friar's Tale and Corrupt Officials
- Published
- ChauR 42 (2007): 180-95.
- Description
- Numerous fourteenth-century documents that address the practice of extortion by institutional "middlemen" point to systemic problems rather than to individual turpitude. FrT reflects this contemporary explanation, albeit without exonerating the Summoner's viciousness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale