Sex and Clergy in Chaucer's "General Prologue."

Author / Editor
Adams, George R.

Title
Sex and Clergy in Chaucer's "General Prologue."

Published
Literature and Psychology 18 (1968): 215-22.

Description
Argues that the seven clerical pilgrims described in GP (Prioress, Monk, Friar, Clerk, Parson, Summoner, and Pardoner) are "partially or wholly defined by their sexual propensities," constituting a thematic pattern of "caritas" in tension with "amor" and exemplifying the Parson's condemnation of "Luxuria" (ParsT 10.890-902).

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Caanterbury Tales
Parson and His Tale