The Hidden Life of the Friars: The Mendicant Orders in the Work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Their Literary World.

Author / Editor
Bart, Patricia R.

Title
The Hidden Life of the Friars: The Mendicant Orders in the Work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Their Literary World.

Published
Donald Prudlo, ed. The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2011), pp. 307-34.

Description
Comments on the presence and treatments of friars in three Middle English writers, including discussion of Chaucer's depictions of friars and the Friar in CT and his uses of anti-mendicant literature as source material.

Contributor
Donald Prudlo, ed.

Alternative Title
The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies.

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