Chaucer's Summoner: An Example of Assimilation Lag in Scholarship.

Author / Editor
Garbáty, Thomas Jay.

Title
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