Witchcraft in the Dispute between Chaucer's Friar and Summoner.
- Author / Editor
- Baker, Donald C.
Witchcraft in the Dispute between Chaucer's Friar and Summoner.
- Published
- South Central Bulletin 21.4 (1961): 33-36.
- Description
- Suggests that "traditions of witchcraft" are "the source of some of the language and . . . part of the motivation of the dispute" between the Friar and the Summoner, adducing late-medieval associations of friars and sorcery and the Summoner's diction and references to demons in his rejoinder to the Friar.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale
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