The Pardoner's Promises: Preaching and Policing Indulgences in the Fourteenth-Century English Church
- Author / Editor
- Shaffern, Robert W.
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.