Jean Gobi's Pardoner Tales
- Author / Editor
- Green Richard Firth.
Jean Gobi's Pardoner Tales
- Published
- Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 340-48.
- Description
- While vernacular precedents for Chaucer's satirical portrait of a pardoner have so far eluded scholars, five Latin exempla in a fourteenth-century French Dominican's collection, "Scala coeli," suggest that "the pardoner was already a type of the avaricious trickster" well before Chaucer wrote his PardT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations