Chaucer's Pilgrims: Three Studies in the Real and the Ideal.
- Author / Editor
- Ussery, Huling Eakin, Jr.
Chaucer's Pilgrims: Three Studies in the Real and the Ideal.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 24.06 (1963): 2491.
- Physical Description
- Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Michigan, 1963.
- Description
- Studies "historical background" to Chaucer's Monk, Clerk, and Physician, comparing their characterizations with historical personages. Argues that the Monk is "probably either Benedictine or Cistercian," and "primarily realistic" rather than satiric. Suggests five personages upon whom the Clerk may have been modeled, and characterizes him as a "remarkable blend of the real and the ideal." Also assesses historical models for the "primarily realistic" Physician whose tale is "strikingly appropriate" to its teller.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Physician and His Tale