Death Is Money: Buying Trouble with the Pardoner.
- Author / Editor
- Ladd, Roger.
Death Is Money: Buying Trouble with the Pardoner.
- Published
- Craig E. Bertolet and Robert Epstein, eds. Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 93-107.
- Description
- Considers relations between PardPT and the Museum of London’s carved wooden panel that depicts details of the tale. Calculates the "absurdity of the hoard" in the tale, and explores possible responses of the "London economic elite" to the differing depictions of avarice in the tale and on the panel. Includes a color photograph of the panel.
- Alternative Title
- Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale