Chaucer's Parson's Tale and the Contours of Orthodoxy
- Author / Editor
- Winstead, Karen A.
Chaucer's Parson's Tale and the Contours of Orthodoxy
- Published
- Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 239-59.
- Description
- By assigning his English translation of Raymund of Pennaforte's "orthodox" yet "contritionist" "Summa de poenitentia" to the Parson, Chaucer subtly resists the emphasis on oral confession to priests that characterized the doctrine of penance of his day. In this way, he began a trend followed by fifteenth-century writers such as Julian of Norwich, Eleanor Hull, Margery Kempe, and Thomas Hoccleve.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations