Chaucer's Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hicks, James E.
Chaucer's Inversion of Augustinian Rhetoric in the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 78-98, 1986.
- Description
- In PardPT, Chaucer inverts three major precepts of Augustinian sermon rhetoric ("De Doctrina Christiana"): the preacher must pray before preaching, the preacher must maintain a grave and appropriate demeanor, and the preacher must maintain Christian instruction as his goal. Breaking each of these, the Pardoner is an inversion of the ideal Augustinian preacher.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.