The Pardoner's Relics (and Why They Matter the Most)
- Author / Editor
- Malo, Robyn.
The Pardoner's Relics (and Why They Matter the Most)
- Published
- ChauR 43 (2008): 82-102.
- Description
- A recognition of the Pardoner as a "parodic relic custodian" calls for a fresh look at his sexuality--relic custodians were to be celibate--and casts into relief the tension in CT between restrictive ecclesiastical power and "lay desire" for access to the sacred, to relics in particular.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Canterbury Tales--General