Chaucer's Wycliffite Critique of the Pardoner
- Author / Editor
- Sugito, Hisashi.
Chaucer's Wycliffite Critique of the Pardoner
- Published
- Sophia English Studies 32 (2007): 17-31.
- Description
- Chaucer uses Wycliffite discourse sympathetically in order to "satirize church corruption which the Pardoner represents," particularly the literal understanding of Scripture and allegories. The Pardoner's treatment of Scripture aligns with the views of anti-Wycliffites, such as William Woodword, William Butler, and Thomas Palmer; his vexed sexuality is tied to the "problem of hermeneutics."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations