'Spiced Conscience' in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Rex, Richard.

Title
'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.