Measuring the Immeasurable: Farting, Geometry, and Theology in the Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Measuring the Immeasurable: Farting, Geometry, and Theology in the Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 414-27.
- Description
- By framing his "Pentacostal parody" within a parody of fourteenth-century English academics' preoccupation with measuring "both physical and metaphysical realities," Chaucer registers "a cautious but not gloomy attitude" regarding the spectrum of reality that may be conducive to human measurement.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.