Some Thomistic Aspects of Angelic Bodies in Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'

Author / Editor
Franks, Carl.

Title
Some Thomistic Aspects of Angelic Bodies in Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'

Published
Medieval Perspectives 29 (2014): 48-58

Description
Considers Thomas Aquinas's "Summa theologica" as a source of the concern with demons' bodies in FrT, arguing that Chaucer followed Thomas's account of this question with intelligent and close attention.

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