The Pardoner's Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts.
- Author / Editor
- da Costa, Alex.
The Pardoner's Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts.
- Published
- Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 27-47.
- Description
- Reconsiders the possibility that the Pardoner is a woman passing as a man in PardT, which raises anxieties about the relation of outward appearance and inner substance. These parallel anxieties about the authenticity of relics and the validity of religious speech acts, including those involved with the transubstantiation of the elements of the Eucharist.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale