Greed and Anti-Fraternalism in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pitard, Derrick G.
Greed and Anti-Fraternalism in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Richard Newhauser, ed. The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 207-27.
- Series
- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, no. 123.
- Description
- Pitard comments on William of St. Amour's "Tractatus brevis" and assesses SumT as a vernacularized adaptation of it--one in which fraternal pretenses are satirized for their Latinate elitism. The satire occurs because "it is hilarious that the friar is not insulted by the fart."
- Contributor
- Newhauser, Richard, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale