"An irous man": Anger and Authority in the "Summoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Cels, Marc B.

Title
"An irous man": Anger and Authority in the "Summoner's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 53.3 (2018): 308-35.

Description
Argues that the right use of anger in proper, hierarchical social relationships in SumT affirms aristocratic authority while undermining the pretenses of Friar John and Jankyn the clerk.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale