Imagining the Mass of Death in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale": A Critique of Medieval Eucharistic Practices.
- Author / Editor
- Pigg, Daniel F.
Imagining the Mass of Death in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale": A Critique of Medieval Eucharistic Practices.
- Published
- Albrecht Classen, ed. Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death )Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016(), pp. 263-76.
- Description
- Discusses the intersection of death, money, and elements of the Catholic mass in PardT. In the wake of the plague, the mass became closely associated with death because of the spreading practice of saying masses for the souls of the dead. The rioters' parodic performance of the mass, including partaking of poisoned (thus substantially altered) wine, "attempts to subvert as it mimics" the ritual of the Eucharist.
- Alternative Title
- Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale