The "Artes Praedicandi" and Chaucer's Canterbury Preachers.

Author / Editor
Myers, Doris Evaline Thompson.

Title
The "Artes Praedicandi" and Chaucer's Canterbury Preachers.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.06 (1967): 2215-16A.

Description
Studies sermon rhetoric in CT, identifying its roots in preaching handbooks and considering its value for understanding aspects of structure, style, and characterization in SNT, NPT, ParsT, PardT, WBT, and SumT, treating the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath, and the friar of SumT as Chaucer's "perverse preachers."

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Parson and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Summoner and His Tale