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.
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