Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue, 444-447.

Author / Editor
Pratt, Robert A.

Title
Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue, 444-447.

Published
Explicator 21.2 (1962): item 14.

Description
Suggests that Jerome's "Ad Rusticum Monachum" (125:11) is the ultimate source of the linking of "baskettes" and the apostles in PardP 6.444-47, and aligns the Pardoner with the Wife of Bath through their shared anti-asceticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale