The Pardoning of the Pardone : Critical Approaches to the Morality of Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Kuntz, Robert Allen.

Title
The Pardoning of the Pardone : Critical Approaches to the Morality of Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1141A.

Description
Critical views of the Pardoner range from total condemnation to interpretations of him as Christlike, with current views seeing him as evil. Interpretations can be immediate, direct, and simple, or complicated sociopsychologically or patristic-exegetically.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.