Chaucer's Numismatic Pardoner and the Personification of Avarice

Author / Editor
Scheps, Walter.

Title
Chaucer's Numismatic Pardoner and the Personification of Avarice

Published
P. E. Szarmach and B. S. Levy, eds. The Fourteenth Century. Acta 4. (Binghampton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghampton, 1977), pp. 107-23.

Description
By studying fourteenth-century numismatics and representations of greed, one finds that the Pardoner's extreme avarice is reflected in his knowledge of coins, his identification with horses, and his sterility.

Contributor
Szarmach, P. E.,
Levy, B. S.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Fourteenth Century.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.