Bovine (E)Sc(h)atology: Papal 'Bulles Assoiling' in 'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale'

Author / Editor
Finnegan, Robert Emmett.

Title
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.