The Pageant of the Sins

Author / Editor
Mills, John.

Title
The Pageant of the Sins

Published
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 253-64.

Description
Examines the pageant of sins in the first book of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene as a reflection of one stage in the development from the Pauline "theological" notion of sin to a "material-psychological" understanding. Compares Spenser's depiction with Chaucer's in ParsT, which is based on a Boethian notion of sin as a failure to recognize the nature of goodness.

Alternative Title
From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.