In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Friar’s Prologue” and “The Friar’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales, the superiority of the clergyman is explained. The friar is not common for the Catholic leaders of his time. He shows doubt and disagreement with the summoner, whose job it is to collect money from parishioners and make them repent for their sins. If the summoner is not paid, the person is damned to Hell and an afterlife of pain. Most of these summoners kept the money they were given. They enlisted the help of prostit

The friar in the story believes in truths that are rarely accepted by clergy in the Middle Ages. Unfortunately, the majority of the church leaders were closer to the vicious summoner than the compassionate friar. The beliefs that Christianity had been founded on had all but vanished by this time. The majority of Catholic officials did not follow the guidelines that had been set for them in the Bible. They were truly above the law. In fact, the Church was in complete control. Because people believed that salvation was dependent on the Church’s acceptance of them, they did very little that could be considered threatening by religious officials.

utes and other dregs of society. The friar believes these people who are supposed to be helping the Church are against the moral and government law. During the friar’s story, he expresses that the Yeoman, who represents the devil, works with the summoner and they become brothers. When the summoner meets an old woman who cannot spare anything and claims she is guiltless, the summoner goes with the devil to Hell.

Moral judgement was left in the hands of the church leadership. The punishment that was dealt out for offenses usually depended on the person’s financial commitment to the church rather than his or her spiritual commitment to God. Church officials also used their power to judge as a way to limit the power of nobles. If the consensus was that the lord of one area was becoming more powerful than the c

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