The Dangerous Theme of the Pardoner.

Author / Editor
Friend, Albert C.

Title
The Dangerous Theme of the Pardoner.

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 18 (1957): 305-08

Description
Suggests Chaucer "was walking on dangerous ground" in choosing 1Timothy 6:10 ("Radix malorum . . .") as the theme of the Pardoner's sermon, adducing a Latin sermon by Oxfordian Robert Lychlade on the same theme that led to him being brought to trial with Lollards in 1395.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale