"Yfallen out of heigh degree": Chaucer's Monk and Crises of Liminal Masculinities.

Author / Editor
Laidlaw, Martin.

Title
"Yfallen out of heigh degree": Chaucer's Monk and Crises of Liminal Masculinities.

Published
Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, and Einat Klafter, eds. Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces and Thresholds (London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2019), pp. 107-22.

Description
Examines conflicts between secular and religious notions of masculinity in the Monk's description in GP and in MkPT, showing that they depict the Monk's "inability to abide by the expected behaviours of his vocation" and expose him to ridicule by the Host and other pilgrims in ShT, PrT, Th, and NPPT.

Contributor
Blud, Victoria, ed.
Heath, Diane, ed.
Klafter, Einat, eds.

Alternative Title
Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces and Thresholds

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Tale of Sir Thopas
Nun's Priest and His Tale