Jean Gobi's Pardoner Tales

Author / Editor
Green Richard Firth.

Title
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