The "Limitour" of Chaucer's Time and His "Limitacioun."
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Arnold.
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