'Goddes Instrumentz': Devils and Free Will in the 'Friar's' and 'Summoner's Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Raybin, David.
'Goddes Instrumentz': Devils and Free Will in the 'Friar's' and 'Summoner's Tales'
- Published
- ChauR 46.1-2 (2011): 93-110.
- Description
- The language and imagery of demonic temptation versus human free will connect FrT and SumT and gain dimension by comparison with ClT. Thomas of SumT is called "demonyak," but his scatological riposte to the friar is justified anger.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
- Summoner and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies