Water of Bitterness : The Pardoner and/as the Sotah
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine S.
Water of Bitterness : The Pardoner and/as the Sotah
- Published
- Exemplaria 16 (2004): 131-64
- Description
- The discourse of PardPT "disrupts binary structures and exposes the fallacy of essentialist ideologies"; it "interrogates the literary and social consequences of identity categories" assumed in "christological exegesis." The Pardoner's relics recall various aspects of the Jewish Sotah ritual.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.