Chaucer's Pardoner and the 'Officer of Preacher'

Author / Editor
Minnis, A. J.

Title
Chaucer's Pardoner and the 'Officer of Preacher'

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe (Tubingen: Narr; Cambridge: Brewer, 1986), pp. 88-119.

Description
Focusing on authority, knowledge, and character, Minnis argues that Chaucer was aware of the fourteenth-century theological debate on the validity of a moral tale told by an immoral man.

Alternative Title
Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.