Belial, Belialism, and the Diabolic Power of Rhetoric from Cynewulf to Milton

Author / Editor
Leasure, T. Ross.

Title
Belial, Belialism, and the Diabolic Power of Rhetoric from Cynewulf to Milton

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 2982A

Description
Examines the development of Belial as a personification of the power of rhetoric to deceive; discusses Chaucer's Pardoner as an example.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.