Once More into the Breech: The Pardoner's Prize 'Relyk'
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Once More into the Breech: The Pardoner's Prize 'Relyk'
- Published
- Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 287-315.
- Description
- Exploring the "cultural sources and significance of the humor which Chaucer brings into play" in PardT (288), Minnis examines medieval relics, shrines, and cures and suggests that if we understand more about these practices, "we may gain a better understanding of the comic discourse surrounding Chaucer's Pardoner and his ridiculous relics—and measure the extent to which they were ridiculous" (306).
- Alternative Title
- Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale