Transubstantiation in the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Millichap, Joseph R

Title
Transubstantiation in the 'Pardoner's Tale'

Published
Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 28.4 (1974): 102-08.

Description
Considers the imagery of transubstantiation and transformation in PardPT and in the GP description of the Pardoner. In traditional Christian terms, the Pardoner fails to use properly the things of the world for spiritual purposes; in terms of Jungian psychology, he is "incapable of sacrifice."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale