The Friar in The Canterbury Tales

In Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales, the friar is depicted as a man lacking whatsoever genuine piety and unmatchable of questionable integrity. The mendicant exemplifies the decadence that had run rampant in the Catholic church commencement exercise in the 12th century, that take to the production of Martin Luthers 95 theses in the early sixteenth century, until is was finally curbed by pope Pius V in 1567. This corruptness is displayed in the character of the beggar both blatantly and inconspicuously. Chaucer sarcastically reveals the degenerate actions of the mendicant by detailing his personal and master key affairs. In this way Chaucer makes his credit of the Friar quite ostensible; additionally, he underscores this opinion with his strategic use of language. \nChaucers etymological decisions reveal a historical context that is non otherwise stated in The Canterbury Tales. His decision to omit Latin words from the vocabulary of the Friars prologue serves to immed iately terrific the reader of a dichotomy between the Friars supposed piety and his actual devotion to God. For the Friar to stand effectively performed his job he would have to have been at least moderately easily versed in the script which, at the time, was only write in Latin. This absence of Latin in the Friars prologue is Chaucers way of representing an absence of God in the Friars life. Chaucer displays the Friars moral depravity in saying, For though a widow woman hadde not a shoe, So pleasant was his In Principio (his blessing), nonetheless he would have a farthing ere he went. This treacherous method acting of mendicancy is echoed on a larger scale by historian Robert W. Shaffern in his bind The Pardoners Promises: preaching and policing indulgences in the fourteenth-century English church. Shaffern speaks ...Sources clearly show that pardoners (including friars) use the penitential fervor of their era. They beam erroneous teachings and despoiled childly rusti cs out...