The knight poem by geoffrey chaucer
The Parson's Prologue and Tale - CliffsNotes.
Chaucer. The Parson's Tale. [Canterbury Tales Study …
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury.
He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised.
10.1 The Parson's Tale | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website
Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.
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The prologue to The Parson's Tale suggests that Chaucer intended The Parson's Tale to be the final tale of The Canterbury Tales.
The Parson's Tale is written in prose. It is not a story, but only a straightforward treatise on penance, penitence and the seven deadly sins described in Christian theology. The parson divides penitence i