The Parson

Author / Editor
Lepine, David.

Title
The Parson

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. 334-51.

Description
Provides historical background about the English Church in the late fourteenth century, and on several religious controversies, including the "culture of anticlerical complaint and the challenge of Wyclif and the Lollards," that contributed to Chaucer's portrait of the Parson in GP and ParsT.

Alternative Title
Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale