The Pardoner

Author / Editor
Horrox, Rosemary.

Title
The Pardoner

Published
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 443-59.

Description
Surveys current and past scholarship on Chaucer's Pardoner. Provides historical background on the office and practices of pardoners in the late medieval Church and reviews debate over Pardoner's "sexual ambiguity."

Alternative Title
Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale