The Concept of Healing in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas J.
The Concept of Healing in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- American Benedictine Review 41 (1990): 59-79.
- Description
- Via reference to and obvious knowledge of St. Augustine's doctrine of spiritual healing through self-punishment and the concept of Christ the Physician, the Pardoner (despite his blatant duplicitous misuse of Church teaching) ascertains his pride and brings himself to "the threshold of contrition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.