The Pardoner's Vernicle and the Image of Man in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Coletti, Theresa.
The Pardoner's Vernicle and the Image of Man in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 10-12.
- Description
- The vernicle, an image of Christ, reminds us that man is made in God's image, and emphasizes the Pardoner's perversion of that image, both morally and spiritually. Yet it also provides hope that the Pardoner may reform himself.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.