The Friar as False Apostle: Antifraternal Exegesis and the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Szittya, Penn R.
The Friar as False Apostle: Antifraternal Exegesis and the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Published
- Studies in Philology 71 (1974): 19-46.
- Description
- Identifies allusions in SumT to biblical passages that were used by fraternal orders and criticized in antifraternal commentary. The allusions, which engage a "theological controversy well known in Chaucer's time," satirize friars' hypocritical claims to apostolic and Pentecostal associations, excoriated by William of St. Amour ("De Periculus") and others; they help to integrate the fart-wheel scene with the rest of the tale and exemplify how Chaucer creates comedy through learned materials.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
- Friar and His Tale