The "Limitour" of Chaucer's Time and His "Limitacioun."

Author / Editor
Williams, Arnold.

Title
The "Limitour" of Chaucer's Time and His "Limitacioun."

Published
Studies in Philology 57 (1960): 463-78.

Description
Defines and illustrates the meanings of "limitour" and "limitacioun" as applied to friars in the late Middle Ages, clarifying licensing, territorial jurisdiction, and the authority to beg, preach, and hear confessions. Focuses on documents of the general chapter meetings of the mendicant orders, the papal decree "Super Cathedram," and English episcopal records, but also comments on Chaucer's Friar and his SumT.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale