Chaucer's Numismatic Pardoner and the Personification of Avarice
- Author / Editor
- Scheps, Walter.
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.