Chaucer’s Pardoner: The Medieval Culture of Cross-Dressing
and Problems of Religious Authority.
- Author / Editor
- Tracy, Larissa.
Chaucer’s Pardoner: The Medieval Culture of Cross-Dressing
and Problems of Religious Authority.
and Problems of Religious Authority.
- Published
- Medieval Feminist Forum 54.2 (2018): 64-108.
- Description
- Explores the implications of reading the Pardoner as a cross-dressing female, arguing that Chaucer leaves "her" characterization ambiguous, plays on "cultural associations of cross-dressing," and “legitimiz[es] the rhetorical power of female preaching." Examines PardPT, the GP description of the Pardoner, and the Pardoner’s exchange with the Host, along with aspects of "Roman de silence," the legend of Pope Joan, Rutebeuf's "De Freire Denise Cordelier," and several lives of female transvestite saints.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale