Cat, Capon, and Pig in The Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
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