Chaucer's Critique of the Church in the 'General Prologue'
- Author / Editor
- Pinent, Pat.
Chaucer's Critique of the Church in the 'General Prologue'
- Published
- Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 39-49.
- Description
- Considers three groups of ecclesiastical figures in CT, categorizing them by religious role and descriptive technique: 1) members of religious orders (Prioress, Monk, and Friar), who the narrator "damns by faint praise and irony"; 2) servants of the institutional Church (Summoner and Pardoner), "condemned for veniality and corruption"; and 3) the idealized pairing of sacred and secular (Parson and Plowman). Significant attention to GP and the theme of pilgrimage.
- Alternative Title
- Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Canterbury Tales--General