somonour

Updated: July 24, 2026

One of the worst features of the religious decadence of the Middle Ages was the craftiness of such spurious types of men as those whom Chaucer painted in the Pardoner and the Somonour, and Charles Reade depicted in the peripatetic "cripples" of "The Cloister and the Hearth."

Edwin Benson - Life in a Mediæval City: Illustrated by York in the XVth Century