Simon Magus and his "Miseri Seguaci": Dante’' Simonists and Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Smilie, Ethan K.

Title
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