Cat, Capon, and Pig in The Summoner's Tale

Author / Editor
Crane, Susan.

Title
Cat, Capon, and Pig in The Summoner's Tale

Published
SAC 34 (2012): 319-24.

Description
References to animals presented as "sentient beings" in SumT convey the friar's "spiritual weakness," perhaps reflecting oral traditions of Franciscan ideals.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations