'Ubi Peccaverant, Ibi Punirentur': The Oak Tree and the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Collette, Carolyn P.

Title
'Ubi Peccaverant, Ibi Punirentur': The Oak Tree and the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 39-45.

Description
Chaucer draws on the symbolic and scriptural traditions of the oak to permit the Pardoner to show off his exemplum-telling skill. Anagogically the exemplum is an allegory of grace offered and refused.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.