The Pardoner's Tale and Dominican Meditation
- Author / Editor
- Twombly, Robert G.
The Pardoner's Tale and Dominican Meditation
- Published
- Chaucer Review 36 (2002): 250-69.
- Description
- Examines the rioters' encounter with the Old Man in PardT in light of Dominican meditation on death as a form of "affective psychology," exemplified in Henry Suso's "The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom." In this genre, "meeting" Death is a means to spiritual enlightenment; it clashes with other scenarios of facing death to generate the complicated "ambiguities" of Chaucer's scene.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations