The Parson's Tale
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title:
The Parson's Tale
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The Parson's Tale is the final "tale" of Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century poetic cycle The Canterbury Tales. Its teller, the Parson, is a virtuous priest who takes his role as spiritual caretaker of his parish seriously. Instead of telling a story, like the other pilgrims do, he delivers a treatise on penitence and the Seven Deadly Sins. This was a popular genre in the Middle Ages; Chaucer's is a translation and reworking that ultimately derives from the Latin manuals of two Dominican friar
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Part of the Canterbury Tales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parson%27s_Tale
date created:
2003-12-16T12:28:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T02:14:24Z
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