Thomas Becket and the Pardoner's Problem: Eunuchry and Healing on the Road to Canterbury
- Author / Editor
- Price, Merrall Llewelyn.
Thomas Becket and the Pardoner's Problem: Eunuchry and Healing on the Road to Canterbury
- Published
- Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 99-118.
- Description
- Explores how the Pardoner resonates with Thomas Becket's miraculous healing of a castrated man, Eilward, depicted in stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral. Considers issues of wholeness, healing, sanctity, and their antitheses reflected in details of the Pardoner's characterization and identity, his relics, and Harry Bailly's threat at the end of PardT.
- Alternative Title
- Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations