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Chaucer and Religion

With theb> notable exceptions of theb> Clerk and theb> Parsonb>, all theb> Church-people have lives that seem to be more or less far removed from what might be expected in people of their calling; theb> Clerk is intensely serious at his studies, theb> Parsonb> is said to be living in true Gospel style.
We all agree, I suppose, that theb> Canterbury Tales begins with theb> General Prologue and ends with theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale and Chaucer'sb> Retraction.
There are quite a number of Tales, and theb> General Prologue itself is perhaps one of them, that are purely secular pictures of theb> 'way of theb> world.' Theb> cunning, thieves and liars, seem to win out over their unsuspecting, or stupid victims, they even boast of it, and there is no certain justice.

http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Religion.htm (5182 words)



General Prologue to Chaucer'sb> Canterbury Tales: Study Questions

Note that while this attitude seems appropriate to Chaucer'sb> Parsonb>, it cannot plausibly be attributed to theb> Chaucer of theb> General Prologue, who seems intent upon demonstrating his ability to write a broad variety of theb> very "fables" that theb> Parsonb> scorns.
Theb> Canterbury Tales I: theb> General Prologue (GP)
General Prologue to Chaucer'sb> Canterbury Tales: Study Questions

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl512/gp.html (1636 words)



Theb> Manciple'sb> Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, theb> free encyclopedia

It appears in its own manuscript fragment, Group H, but theb> prologue to theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale makes it clear it is theb> penultimate story in theb> collection.
In theb> tale'sb> prologue, theb> Host tries to rouse theb> drunken Cook to tell a tale, but he is too intoxicated.
Read "Theb> Manciple'sb> Prologue and Tale" with interlinear translation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manciple's_Prologue_and_Tale (339 words)



Old and Middle English tapes

Side 1: Theb> General Prologue, through theb> Wife of Bath Side 2: General Prologue, Parsonb> to theb> conclusion; Prologue to theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale; Chaucer'sb> retraction A07.16 Two Canterbury Tales--Chaucer, read in Middle English by J. Bessinger, Jr.
Beginning of General Prologue of Chaucer'sb> Canterbury Tales 6.
Beginning of Prologue of A-text of Piers Ploughman 5.

http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/audio/a07.html (284 words)



LIT 2001: Characters in Chaucer'sb> Theb> General Prologue

Theb> Knight is one of three idealized characters in Theb> General Prologue (theb> other two being theb> Parsonb> and theb> Plowman).
Theb> Parsonb> is one of three idealized characters in Theb> General Prologue (theb> other two being theb> Knight and theb> Plowman).
LIT 2001: Characters in Chaucer'sb> Theb> General Prologue of theb> CT

http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo/lit2001_handout_CT_characters.htm (347 words)



Geoffrey Chaucer: General Introduction

Theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue and Tale: clearly designed to be theb> last tale in theb> collection, this is no "tale" but a long moral treatise translated from two Latin works on Penitence and on theb> Seven Deadly Sins.
Longer introductions to certain Tales: Theb> General Prologue; Theb> Miller'sb> Tale; Theb> Nun'sb> Priest'sb> Tale; Theb> Pardoner'sb> Prologue and Tale; Theb> Wife of Bath'sb> Prologue and Tale.
Theb> Reeve'sb> Prologue and Tale: a fabliau about theb> cuckolding of a miller told by theb> Reeve (who is a carpenter, and very angry with theb> Miller for his tale); two Cambridge students punish a dishonest miller by having sex with his wife and daughter while asleep all in one room.

http://www.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony/Chaucer (8280 words)



chausyll

Parsonb>'sb> Prologue (1-74); 1st and last paragraphs of Parsonb>'sb> Tale; Chaucer'sb> Retraction, p.
Reeve'sb> Prologue and Tale; Cook'sb> Prologue and Tale; What is a fragment anyway?
Intro to Pardoner&; Pardoner& Prologue and Tale; C.David Benson, “Chaucer& Pardoner: His Sexuality and Modern Critics”

http://www.haverford.edu/engl/chaucer/chausyll.htm (137 words)



UCSB Department of English

CT Manciple'sb> Prologue and Tale and Parsonb>'sb> Prologue ll.
CT Clerk'sb> Prologue and Tale parts I-III ll.
CT Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas, Tale of Melibee excerpt ll.

http://www.english.ucsb.edu/courses/dept_schedule.asp?CourseID=168 (258 words)



Syllabus

: Manciple'sb> Prologue and Tale; Parsonb>'sb> Prologue and Tale [75-204; skim "theb> seven sins," 950- 2720; 3078-3146]; Chaucer'sb> "Retraction."
: Miller'sb> Prologue and Tale; Reeve'sb> Prologue and Tale; Cook'sb> Prologue and Tale.
: Friar'sb> Prologue and Tale; Summoner'sb> Prologue and Tale.

http://www.yu.edu/faculty/haahr/2315/syllabus.htm (629 words)



CHA-GPTT.htm

In theb> General Prologue, with regard to theb> amount and nature of his speech, theb> Oxford Student (as pointed out in class) is an ironic comparison-contrast to: (a) theb> Knight (b) theb> Merchant (c) theb> Franklin (d) theb> Parsonb>
In theb> General Prologue, distinctive medieval touches in theb> description of theb> Physician have to do with his use of: (a) knowledge of ancient Egyptian medicine (b) surgical instruments (c) astrology and gold (d) saints' holy relics
One distinctive medieval aspect of theb> "array" of most of theb> men, as described in theb> General Prologue, is their: (a) knives or daggers (b) bellbottom trousers (c) coarse knit shirts (d) three-cornered caps (e) tippets

http://www.aug.edu/~nprinsky/Humn2001/CHA-GPTT.htm (913 words)



15ch8

They cite as evidence apparent ecclesiastical censorship in such items as theb> omission of theb> end of theb> Pardoner'sb> Tale to avoid theb> vulgar quarrel, theb> omission of theb> Shipman'sb> Tale and its link, and theb> depiction in theb> Reeve'sb> Tale of theb> wife as theb> daughter of a swanherd rather than of a parsonb>.
Scribe II reenters at this point to add a single leaf concluding theb> Miller'sb> Tale and presenting theb> prologue to theb> Reeve'sb> Tale (see illustrations 3-5), but he ends this brief stint on f.
10 Curiously, though, as Charles A. Owen notes, passages in theb> General Prologue and in theb> Canon Yeoman'sb> Tale one would presume to be equally offensive to such ecclesiastics have not been edited

http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol15/15ch8.html (3217 words)



Chaucer--Parsonb>

Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, "Parsonb>'sb> Prologue and Tale"
Theb> Parsonb> offers to tell his tale "To knytte up al this feeeste and make an ende" (47), implying theb> tale is a summa or logical "summation" of all that has gone before.
Theb> Prologue contains echoes of previous tales reaching back to Fragment I with theb> reference to astrological time, theb> "pley" issue (23), theb> act of revelation ("unbokele and shewe us what is in thy male" [X.26]; compare I.3115], and theb> choice to tell virtuous tales as opposed to "fable" (31-41).

http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng330/chaucerparson.htm (1182 words)



Will and theb> Law of Property

Theb> Plowman may be viewed as a secular shadow of theb> Christian ideals propounded by theb> unblemished Parsonb>, not a fully formed character in himself, but theb> spiritual element of a character which may be adopted by any individual.
Pigg, Daniel F. "Figuring Subjectivity in Piers Plowman C and ‘Theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale’ and ‘Retraction:’ Authorial Insertion and Identity Poetics." Style 31 (1997): 428-39.
	In Chaucer'sb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale, Retraction, and L'sb> C.5, theb> authors engage in a homologue to confession by which they inscribe their identities in their texts and become themselves theb> subjects of poetic reflection.

http://www.yls.cornell.edu/bib98.html (7768 words)



SparkNotes: Theb> Canterbury Tales: Plot Overview

Theb> Friar promises to tell a tale about a summoner, and theb> Summoner promises to tell a tale about a friar.
In theb> Prologue to his tale, theb> Man of Law laments theb> miseries of poverty.
Following theb> Man of Law’sb> Tale, theb> Host asks theb> Parsonb> to tell theb> next tale, but theb> Parsonb> reproaches him for swearing, and they fall to bickering.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/summary.html (3635 words)



SparkNotes: Theb> Canterbury Tales: Plot Overview

In theb> Prologue to his tale, theb> Man of Law laments theb> miseries of poverty.
Following theb> Man of Law’sb> Tale, theb> Host asks theb> Parsonb> to tell theb> next tale, but theb> Parsonb> reproaches him for swearing, and they fall to bickering.
When theb> Second Nun’sb> Tale is finished, theb> company is overtaken by a black-clad Canon and his Yeoman, who have heard of theb> pilgrims and their tales and wish to participate.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/summary.html (3632 words)



Chaucer'sb> General Prologue to theb> Canterbury Tales study questions

In this regard, it is interesting to note that theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale and theb> Retraction together constitute theb> final "fragment" of theb> Canterbury Tales in every manuscript that preserves theb> full collection (see NA 214).
Make sure you have read theb> general background information NA 10-12 (on theb> Fourteenth Century), 20 (on Chaucerian verse), 210-15 (headnotes to Chaucer, theb> Canterbury Tales and theb> General Prologue), 310-11 (on theb> close of theb> Canterbury Tales) and 317-19 (headnote to William Langland, Piers Plowman).
Know what time of day is evoked at theb> end of theb> tales (Parsonb>'sb> Introduction, lines 1-9) and theb> symbolism associated with that time of day.

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl203/gp203.html (3304 words)



harris-1

Fragment IX: Theb> Manciple'sb> Prologue and Tale Fragment X: Theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue and Tale, Chaucer'sb> Retraction
Fragment I: General prologue, Knights Tale, Millers Prologue and Tale, Reeves Prologue and Tale, Cooks Prologue and Tale
Fragment III consist of theb> Wife of Bath'sb> Tale, theb> Summoners Tale and theb> Friars Tale, which is exactly theb> same as Theb> Riverside Chaucer.

http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ENG421/Reports/Reports-1/harris-1.htm (1705 words)



Geoffrey Chaucer - Author Find

Theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue and Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer - theb> Canterbury Tales)
Theb> Prologue, theb> Knight'sb> Tale, and theb> Nun'sb> Priest'sb> Tale from Chaucer'sb> Canterbury Tales
Theb> Tale of Melibee (Geoffrey Chaucer - theb> Canterbury Tales)

http://www.authorfind.com/geoffrey-chaucer.html (1086 words)



CHAUCER - LoveToKnow Article on CHAUCER

Theb> sermon on Penitence, used as theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale, was probably theb> work of his old age.
In 1737 (reprinted in 1740) theb> Prologue and Knights Tale were edited (anonymously) by Thomas Moreli from theb> most authentic manuscripts, and here, though by dint of much violence and with many mistakes, Chaucers lines were for theb> first time in print given in a form in which they could be scanned.
Theb> wearisome tale of " Melibee and his wyf Prudence," which was perhaps as much admired in English as it had been in Latin and French, may have been translated at any time.

http://87.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CH/CHAUCER.htm (6224 words)



Chaucer--Friar

Friars and summoners both circulated freely among theb> folk, and therefore they had plenty of opportunity of becoming "rusted" (or "shitten") as theb> Pilgrim-Parsonb> would say (I.500, 504).
Also, this is not terribly bad advice for a medieval Christian--could theb> Friar be serving a moral purpose in his sermonic scourging of theb> Summoner, even if theb> Friar is, himself, a sinful man? This was a problem that worried medieval Christians, too.
2) Since this tale follows theb> pattern of a well-known folk tale, theb> Friar'sb> tale-telling strategy has to depend on capturing theb> characters of his "erchedeken,' "summoner" and "feende" as economically and tellingly as possible.

http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng330/chaucerfriar.htm (1414 words)



tgmla.htm

All tales, prologues, and "links" must be read, with theb> exception of theb> Parsonb>'sb> Tale and theb> Melibee (theb> pilgrim Chaucer'sb> second tale), which are optional.
Chaucer'sb> manner of fitting teller to tale is a very complex phenomenon that includes not only theb> fact that theb> Prioress must tell a religious tale (and that theb> Miller must not) but also theb> style and manner in which she tells it.
I think there is no need here to explain all theb> points that go into theb> discussion of theb> tales: theb> aubade in theb> Reeve'sb> Tale, theb> anti-intellectualism of theb> of theb> Carpenter and theb> Miller, theb> use of occupatio, and so on.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tgarbaty/tgmla.htm (3822 words)



British Literature Study Questions

Theb> Retraction occurs at theb> end of theb> Parsonb>sb> Tale in theb> Canterbury Tales.
How is her tale appropriate to her person and similar to theb> ideas expressed in theb> prologue.
Show how one or two of theb> sources are important to understanding theb> attitudes expressed in theb> wifesb> prologue or tale.

http://research.uvsc.edu/mcdonald/britquestions/britsq.html (8101 words)



Worlds Apart

Theb> Shipman blocks theb> Parsonb>'sb> tale on theb> grounds that this heretic Lollard might corrupt theb> faithful.
Theb> Man of Law'sb> Tale exposes, hence questions, a central dynamic of patriarchal Christianity by which theb> communitas that develops in theb> Epilogue is achieved in response to a tale of exclusion and subordination, a tale that situates men and women, East and West, worlds apart.
He too begins theb> tale with reference to Constance'sb> early years in Rome, but truncates theb> discussion of sources and focusses instead on theb> worthiness of Constance'sb> father, theb> emperor Tiberius Constantius, and Constance'sb> own good name, setting theb> stage for theb> attacks by Envy and Backbiting in theb> guise of theb> two evil mothers.

http://web.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/schibano.html (10385 words)



British Literature Study Questions

Theb> Retraction occurs at theb> end of theb> Parsonb>sb> Tale in theb> Canterbury Tales.
How is her tale appropriate to her person and similar to theb> ideas expressed in theb> prologue.
Show how one or two of theb> sources are important to understanding theb> attitudes expressed in theb> wifesb> prologue or tale.

http://research.uvsc.edu/mcdonald/britquestions/britsq.html (8101 words)



British Literature Study Questions

Theb> Retraction occurs at theb> end of theb> Parsonb>sb> Tale in theb> Canterbury Tales.
How is her tale appropriate to her person and similar to theb> ideas expressed in theb> prologue.
Show how one or two of theb> sources are important to understanding theb> attitudes expressed in theb> wifesb> prologue or tale.

http://research.uvsc.edu/mcdonald/britquestions/Britsq.html (8101 words)



chaucer10.html

In theb> Prologue to theb> Clerk'sb> Tale he refers to John of Legnano, an Italian lawyer, who was an ardent supporter of Urban VI as theb> single true pope of theb> Roman church.
Theb> connection in theb> Parsonb>'sb> mind between pope, merchants, and simony is rational, if somewhat odd, by virtue of his notion that "Espiritueel marchandise is proprely symonye, that is ententif desir to byen thyng espiritueel; that is, thyng that aperteneth to theb> seinturaire of God and to cure of theb> soule" (X.780).
In theb> Summoner'sb> Tale, for instance, we see theb> friar of that tale traveling from door to door collecting donations in exchange for theb> promise that he and his "covent"-mates will pray for theb> salvation of theb> gift-givers.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9976/chaucer10.html (7339 words)



Chaucer Pedagogy: Teaching Notes

We know that Fragment 1 (Theb> General Prologue, theb> Knight'sb> Tale, theb> Miller'sb> Tale, theb> Reeve'sb> Tale, and theb> Cook'sb> Tale) begins and Fragment 10 (Parsonb>'sb> Tale and theb> Retraction) bound theb> others.
Genre: confessional autobiographical prologue (compare to theb> Pardoner'sb> Prologue); theb> wife reveals her view of life and her history in her prologue.
Finally, theb> Canterbury Tales is a fiction about tale-telling and therefore about language, reality, perception, motivation, and theb> other things that make us human, and drive us to distraction, and make life interesting.

http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/afdtk/tnotes.htm (2035 words)



Theb> Wife of Bath

Theb> Wife of Bathsb> Prologue and Tale, theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue and Tale, and theb> Retractions
As a wife and mother, Margery is no saintly virgin; she is far from an "estates ideal" like theb> Parsonb> or theb> Plowman in Theb> General Prologue.
In theb> Remedy for theb> Sin of Lechery, theb> Parsonb> strictly defines a wifesb> duty to her husband, a husbandsb> responsibilities to his wife, theb> limitations on sexual conduct consistent with Christian moral practice, and celebrates chastityall in direct contrast to theb> Wifesb> ebullient argument.

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/ENGL201/chaucer3.htm (2035 words)



Jo Koster SEMA 2000

Click here to see theb> end of theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue from theb> Ellesmere Manuscript.
Click here to see theb> end of theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue from theb> Hengwrt Manuscript.
Click here to see theb> contested passage from theb> Wife of Bath'sb> Prologue in Ellesmere.

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/scholarly/sema2000.htm (2035 words)



Jo Koster SEMA 2000

Click here to see theb> end of theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue from theb> Hengwrt Manuscript.
Click here to see theb> end of theb> Parsonb>'sb> Prologue from theb> Ellesmere Manuscript.
Click here to see theb> contested passage from theb> Wife of Bath'sb> Prologue in Hengwrt.

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/scholarly/sema2000.htm (207 words)

Topic: The Parson's <b>Prologue<

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