Chaucer's Daun Piers and the Rule of St. Benedict: The Failure of an Ideal
- Author / Editor
- White, Robert B. Jr.
Chaucer's Daun Piers and the Rule of St. Benedict: The Failure of an Ideal
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 70 (1971): 13-30.
- Description
- Characterizes the Monk as the "satiric consummation of all possible monastic faults," analyzing him in light of the "seven points of disciple" of the Rule of St. Benedict (obedience, poverty, celibacy, propertylessness, labor, claustration, and proper diet) and showing where details and nuances in his character contrast with monastic strictures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations