The True Cross: Chaucer, Calvin, and Relic Mongers.

Author / Editor
Nickell, Joe.

Title
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