The Source for the 'Remedia' of the Parson's Tale

Author / Editor
Wenzel, Siegfried.

Title
The Source for the 'Remedia' of the Parson's Tale

Published
Traditio 27 (1971): 433-54.

Description
Demonstrates that Chaucer's source for the remedial virtues offered as antidotes to the vices in ParsT is a Latin treatise here titled "Postquam" that often appears with material from Peraldus's "Summa de Vitiis," the major source of the Tale. Describes the treatise, identifies known manuscripts, and offers in flanking columns parallel materials from it and from ParsT.

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