Chaucer's Thirty Pilgrims and Activa Vita.
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
Chaucer's Thirty Pilgrims and Activa Vita.
- Published
- Neophilologus 45 (1961): 224-30.
- Description
- Suggests that the number of participants in Chaucer's CT pilgrimage--"Wel nyne and twenty" (GP 1.24) plus the narrator--can be seen to signify the "active life," consisting "essentially of penitence and good works." Offers evidence that thirty signifies "activa vita" elsewhere in medieval "framed story-collections" and in medieval number symbolism, and explores the implications of such symbolism in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales