'The venym of symony': The Debate on the Eucharist in the Late Fourteenth Century and The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pattwell, Niamh.
'The venym of symony': The Debate on the Eucharist in the Late Fourteenth Century and The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 115-30.
- Description
- Patwell explores how the Pardoner "transgresses the boundaries between lay man and cleric and between lollardy and orthodoxy," focusing on how in PardPT Chaucer exposes extreme views about the Eucharist and how he targets what is being condemned without condemning any particular doctrinal system.
- Alternative Title
- Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale