Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage
- Published
- Lawrence Besserman, ed. Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 63-82.
- Description
- Minnis explores medieval attempts to "explain the difficult and dangerous relationship" between "material and spiritual economies" underlying pardons or indulgences, commenting on the explanations of Albert the Great, Aquinas, and Bonaventure and examining late medieval English defense (perhaps by canon lawyer Richard Godmersham) of the plenary status of the indulgence for a pilgrimage to Canterbury. In this light, Chaucer's Pardoner is an example of "rapacious greed" who ignores the principles of indulgence.
- Contributor
- Besserman, Lawrence [L.], ed.
- Alternative Title
- Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale