Chaucer's Pardoner and His Relics

Author / Editor
Wenzel, Siegfried.

Title
Chaucer's Pardoner and His Relics

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 37-41.

Description
Evidence from a Latin handbook for preachers ("Fasciculus morum"), mendicant literature, and canon law suggests that the "association of pardoners with fake relics was not as uncommon...as is currently believed."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.