Elijah the Prophet, Founder of the Carmelite Order.
- Author / Editor
- Koch, Robert A.
Elijah the Prophet, Founder of the Carmelite Order.
- Published
- Speculum 34 (1959): 547-60.
- Description
- Observes that references to Elijah and Elisha in SumT 3.2116-18 evince "Chaucer's awareness, if not endorsement, of the widely held belief that the 'earliest anchorite' Elijah was the founder of the Carmelite Order," and provides various features of the legend as found in medieval literature, statuary, and book illustration.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale