'Spiced Conscience' in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Rex, Richard.
'Spiced Conscience' in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Modern Philology 80 (1982): 53-54.
- Description
- The reflexive "maken" ("to pretend") is studied in a discussion of the conscience of the Prioress, the Parson, the Pardoner, Griselda, Friar John, and the Wife of Bath. "Spiced conscience" means "tender feeling," or "hypocritical religiosity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Canterbury Tales--General.