The friar shows his selfishness by his actions, "And anywhere where profit might arise he'd crawl with courteous offers of service " (Chaucer 7) A Friar should be there to be there to assist people whenever needed but the Friar in this story only goes to help out rich wealthy people. ... Even though there is not any specific cases there are books written on the ecclesiastical legal system's corruptions during the medieval times and, "In it is a most detailed account of the unholy methods of the beginning Friars in the fourteenth century. " (Lumiansky 140) Chaucer uses many examples i...

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