Penitentials to Poetry: The Literary Critique of Avarice in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Author / Editor
- Ward, Jessica D.
Penitentials to Poetry: The Literary Critique of Avarice in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Published
- Ph. D. Dissertation. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2019. v, 211 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01 (2019): n.p. Fully accessible via https://www.digitalgreensboro.org/record/15926?ln=en&p=%28+%28subject%3A%28Geoffrey+%2B+Chaucer%29%29%29&v=pdf (accessed April 11, 2026).
- 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