Preaching and Avarice in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Ginsberg, Warren.
Preaching and Avarice in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- Mediaevalia 2 (1976): 77-99.
- Description
- References to medieval treatises and exegetical tradition suggest that the Pardoner's connection with ale, dove, and tree indicates that, through avarice, he is too literal to preach God's word. The Old Man, taken literally by the Pardoner, signifies the effects of avarice. The Old Man is repentant, but the Pardoner is not.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.