The Sexual Normality of Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
The Sexual Normality of Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Mediaevalia 8 (1985 for 1982): 351-58.

Description
The Pardoner is characterized not by signs of homosexuality, but by indication of effeminacy, thought in the Middle Ages to indicate carnality. Green offers parallels in works by Gower and Lydgate.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.