Textual Exhibitionism : The Pardoner's Affirmation of Text Over Context
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Susanne Sara.
Textual Exhibitionism : The Pardoner's Affirmation of Text Over Context
- Published
- Mediaevalia 22: 133-47, 1998.
- Description
- The Pardoner masks his questionable oral and sexual potency by conspicuously exhibiting his "bulles" and using them to assert power. These documents remain valid despite their dissonance with the spiritual nature of the Pardoner. PardT demonstrates late-medieval anxiety about the increasing dependence on written documents or on text vs. context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.