Death, Prudence, and Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Matsuda, Takami.

Title
Death, Prudence, and Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91 (1992): 313-24.

Description
The Pardoner's pragmatic claims for salvation are part of a larger "question of Christian worldly prudence" in CT. His "response to his own tale . . . alerts us to the growth of a pragmatic attitude toward individual death and salvation."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.