Chaucer's Summoner: Fyr-reed Cherubynnes Face.

Author / Editor
Peltola, Niilo.

Title
Chaucer's Summoner: Fyr-reed Cherubynnes Face.

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 69 (1968): 560-68.

Description
Traces several iconographical, etymological, and punning associations of cherubs with redness, commenting on confusion with seraphs, and suggesting that these associations underlie details of the Summoner's description in GP.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale
Language and Word Studies