Spiritual Sickness in the Physician's and Pardoner's Tales: Themetic Unity in Fragment VI of the 'Canterbury Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Trower, Katherine B.
Spiritual Sickness in the Physician's and Pardoner's Tales: Themetic Unity in Fragment VI of the 'Canterbury Tale'
- Published
- American Benedictine Review 29 (1978): 67-86.
- Description
- The Physcian and the Pardoner both claim to be healers, but both capitalize on human sickness. Their function as healers is ironically undercut and their tales are thematically related by a common vision of death as terminal rather than transcendent and by an implicit repudiation of the life of the spirit.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale