Two Possible Sources for Chaucer's Description of the Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Klassen, Norman.
Two Possible Sources for Chaucer's Description of the Pardoner
- Published
- N&Q 252 (2007): 233-36.
- Description
- Sallust's association of avarice with effeminacy in "The War with Catiline" and Aulus Gellius's subsequent reiteration of the link in his "Attic Nights" are two possible sources for the combination of avarice with effeminacy in Chaucer's Pardoner.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.