Simon Magus and his "Miseri Seguaci": Dante’' Simonists and Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Smilie, Ethan K.
Simon Magus and his "Miseri Seguaci": Dante’' Simonists and Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale."
- Published
- Mediaevalia 40 (2019): 139-67..
- Description
- Argues that Dante in Canto XIX of his "Inferno," and Chaucer in SumT, "show essentially the same pervasive effects of simony in essentially the same manner," using similar "images of and parodic allusions to" the sin. However, the poets differ in their "inverse use of friars [which] is likely a result of their differing political and ecclesiastical environments."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations