Chaucer's Summoner: An Example of Assimilation Lag in Scholarship.
- Author / Editor
- Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Chaucer's Summoner: An Example of Assimilation Lag in Scholarship.
- Published
- Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 47 (1962): 605-11.
- Description
- Reviews evidence in GP that Chaucer's Summoner suffers from venereal disease rather than leprosy, using it as an example of little-known or overlooked scholarship that might be lost or ignored. Cites other examples more briefly, including the record of Chaucer's presence in Spain in 1366.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
Chaucer's Life