The Canon's Yeoman's Alchemical "Mass."
- Author / Editor
- Grennen, Joseph E.
The Canon's Yeoman's Alchemical "Mass."
- Published
- Studies in Philology 62 (1965): 546-60.
- Description
- Argues that the two canons of CYPT are functionally identical, that the canon is a consistent character, and that Pars Prima and Secunda of CYT parallel the two parts of medieval alchemical treatises and comprise an "ironic image of the sacrilegious aspect of alchemy." Secunda Pars, particularly, offers "quasi-sacramental" details and patterns that lampoon alchemical pretensions to allegorical representations of the mass and Crucifixion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale