Standing under the Cross in the "Pardoner's" and "Shipman's Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Fein, Susanna.
Standing under the Cross in the "Pardoner's" and "Shipman's Tales."
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 89-114.
- Description
- Argues that PardT and ShT, juxtaposed but not linked in the Ellesmere manuscript, implicitly embed Crucifixion imagery toward a critique of materialist values. By positioning the "human incapacity to 'see' spiritually against glimmering signs of God's real presence," PardT alludes ironically to the mass and Christ's torture, while ShT sexualizes familiar iconography of Mary and John at the Commendation of Jesus.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Visual Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale