Bovine (E)Sc(h)atology: Papal 'Bulles Assoiling' in 'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Finnegan, Robert Emmett.
Bovine (E)Sc(h)atology: Papal 'Bulles Assoiling' in 'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93 (1992): 303-12.
- Description
- The verb "assoillen" and the noun "bulle," two terms that cluster in the prologue and epilogue to PardT, engage in wordplay with "soilen" and "boles" respectively. The Pardoner, who implicity claims to be God, attempts to "soilen" the pilgrims morally and spiritually.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.