The True Cross: Chaucer, Calvin, and Relic Mongers.
- Author / Editor
- Nickell, Joe.
The True Cross: Chaucer, Calvin, and Relic Mongers.
- Published
- The Science of Miracles: Investigating the Incredible (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2013), pp. 91-99.
- Description
- Comments briefly on PardT as "a satirical attack on relic mongering," and notes the Host's seemingly earnest reference to St. Helen's finding of the cross (6.951) and the possible implication that Chaucer "accepts the relic . . . as authentic."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale