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- Title
Faux Semblants: Antifraternalism Reconsidered in Jean de Meun and Chaucer.
- Authors
Geltner, G.
- Abstract
Argues that Faus Semblant of "Roman de la Rose," by Jean de Meun is a personification of hypocrisy not a direct depiction or a caricature of a real or aggregate friar in line with the antifraternal sentiment from medieval to early modern literature. Characteristics of Faus Semblant; Objections to friars that can be gleaned from the fiction from Geoffrey Chaucer; Form of confession of Faust Semblant.
- Subjects
FRIARS in literature; HYPOCRISY in literature; CLERGY; ROMAN de la Rose (Poem); JEAN, de Meun, ca. 1240-ca. 1305; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400
- Publication
Studies in Philology, 2004, Vol 101, Issue 4, p357
- ISSN
0039-3738
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sip.2004.0020