"Substaunce into Accident": Transubstantiation and Relics in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Greene, Darragh.

Title
"Substaunce into Accident": Transubstantiation and Relics in Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale."

Published
Religion & Literature 54 (2022): 141-62.

Description
Focuses on CT and PardT, specifically. Discusses the Pardoner's fabrication of relics and the "preposterous" transformation of "accident into substance," a reversal of the trope used in PardT, the narrative voice in both GP and PardT, and deception and fakery in HF.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Ho.use of Fame