The Pardoner's Promises: Preaching and Policing Indulgences in the Fourteenth-Century English Church

Author / Editor
Shaffern, Robert W.

Title
The Pardoner's Promises: Preaching and Policing Indulgences in the Fourteenth-Century English Church

Published
Historian 68.1 (2006): 49-65.

Description
Late medieval literary and historical attitudes toward pardoners suggest that the depictions in "Piers Plowman" and PardPT are exaggerated. Shaffern documents ecclesiastical efforts to control abuse of the office.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.