The Summoner
- Author / Editor
- Forrest, Ian.
The Summoner
- Published
- Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 421-42.
- Description
- Reveals the Summonor to be an "unattractive caricature" and posits reasons for Chaucer's description and portrayal in GP and SumT. Provides historical background on medieval summoners, and claims that the Summoner is "part of a Chaucerian critique" of Church government and ecclesiastical practices.
- Alternative Title
- Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale