What It Means to Own: Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk, Monastic Rule, and Giorgio Agamben.

Author / Editor
Meljac, Eric.

Title
What It Means to Own: Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk, Monastic Rule, and Giorgio Agamben.

Published
Explicator 74.2 (2016): 80-82.

Description
Examines GP portrait of the Monk, and his obvious infractions against monastic norms and regulations, in light of Giorgio Agamben's "The Highest Property: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life" (2011), stressing not only the Monk's disdain for monastic poverty, but also his sin in owning property. Provides brief overview of Agamben's book as well.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale