Temporal and Spiritual Indebtedness in the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Higgs, Elton D.

Title
Temporal and Spiritual Indebtedness in the Canterbury Tales

Published
Susan Powell and Jeremy J. Smith, eds. New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R. A. Waldron (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), pp. 151-67.

Description
Explores the themes of debt and indebtedness in CT, showing how they are established in GP and how throughout the work attempts "to manipulate obligations to one's own advantage" result in "superficial or ambivalent success." Material advantage often reflects spiritual indebtedness. Focuses on the themes in WBP, PardT, ShT, and FranT.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R. A. Waldron.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Shipman and His Tale.
Pardoner and His Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.