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The Summoner's story shows the Summoner's disdain for the pilgrim Friar and the Summoner's belief that the message the friar in the tale espouses is of a blasphemous nature, one that inverts and perverts the essence of his Christian order.
The Summoner's Prologue. The Prologe of the Somonours Tale. 1665 This Somonour in his styropes hye stood; This Summoner in his stirrups stood high; 1666 Upon this Frere his herte was so wood. Upon this Friar his heart was so enraged.
The Summoner uses the tale to satirise friars in general, with their long sermonising and their tendency to live well despite vows of poverty. It reflects on the theme of clerical corruption, a common one within The Canterbury Tales and within the wider 14th-century world as seen by the Lollard movement. The attitude of the lord ...
Short Summary: In Yorkshire, at Holdernesse, a friar making his rounds, begging from householders, calls upon old Thomas, who is very ill. The wife tells him Thomas is grouchy, and the friar preaches a sermon on the evils of anger. Then he presses Thomas for a rich gift; Thomas says he has already given all he can, but the friar persists.
The Summoner’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Told in retaliation for the Friar’s unflattering portrait of a summoner, this earthy tale describes a hypocritical friar’s attempt to wheedle a gift from an ailing benefactor.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In most manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, the Summoner’s Tale follows the Friar’s Tale, and they form a pair. The Friar baits the Summoner by telling a tale about a corrupt summoner, who is in cahoots with the devil.
A friar in Yorkshire is always calling on people to pay money for Masses to deliver the souls of their loved ones from purgatory. He begs constantly, asking for food and...
