Treasure Trove in the "Pardoner's Tale"
- Author / Editor
- Roache, Joel.
Treasure Trove in the "Pardoner's Tale"
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 64 (1965): 1-6.
- Description
- Documents "legal aspects" of discovered treasure in late-medieval England, identifying similarities in lexicon and imagery between legal records concerning found hoards and the rioters' descriptions of their treasure in PardT. The similarities indicate that Chaucer and his audience would have considered the rioters' hoard to be stolen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations