'Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth': The Sins of the Mouth in The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Lonati, Elisabetta.
'Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth': The Sins of the Mouth in The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Giovanni Iamartino, Maria Luisa Maggioni, and Roberta Facchinetti, eds. Thou sittest at another boke: English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini (Milan: Polimetrica, 2008), pp. 237-62.
- Description
- PardT shows the polysemous aspects of gluttony as a sin, suggesting that gluttons are similar to heretics, who use the mouth to deny sacred truths. In contrast to the Parson, the Pardoner embodies the idea that "peccata oris" are not confined to overindulgence in food and drink but extend to other vices related to the mouth, such as swearing and perjury.
- Alternative Title
- Thou sittest at another boke: English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale