Penitentials to Poetry: The Literary Critique of Avarice in Fourteenth-Century England.

Author / Editor
Ward, Jessica D.

Title
Penitentials to Poetry: The Literary Critique of Avarice in Fourteenth-Century England.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01 (2019): n.p.

Description
Addresses the "challenge posed to Christian ethics due to the proliferation of urban markets and increased personal wealth in medieval England," examining various
aspects of avarice in "Piers Plowman"; John Gower's "Confessio Amantis"; and CT, especially GP, WBP, PardP, and CYP.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale