The Pardoner's Digestion : Eating Images in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Lynch, Kathryn L.

Title
The Pardoner's Digestion : Eating Images in The Canterbury Tales

Published
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 393-409.

Description
The Pardoner's "misunderstanding" of gluttony as a sin "becomes emblematic of his inability to appreciate significance in general." Lynch discusses digestive imagery from medieval commentaries on memory and meditation to clarify the nature of the Pardoner's error, arguing that PardT directs its readers to proper understanding.

Alternative Title
Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.