How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer's Pardoner

Author / Editor
Camargo, Martin.

Title
How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer's Pardoner

Published
Robert Epstein and William Robins, eds. Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming (Buffalo, N. Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 146-78.

Description
Camargo details how the Pardoner "pointedly rejects every tenet" of moral instruction found in chapter 1 of Waleys's "De modo componendi sermones" and shows how the treatise discloses flaws in the Pardoner's rhetorical techniques. The Pardoner "may have been" self-deluded about his verbal prowess. The collection appends Camargo's translation of chapter 1 of Waleys's treatise.

Alternative Title
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations