Chaucer's Pardoner, the Scriptural Eunuch, and the Pardoner's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Miller, Robert P.
Chaucer's Pardoner, the Scriptural Eunuch, and the Pardoner's Tale.
- Published
- Speculum 30 (1955): 180-99.
- Description
- Follows W. C. Curry (1926) in understanding the Pardoner to be a eunuch, and explores the Biblical and exegetical implications of this characterization, reinforced by animal imagery, and associated with the Pauline "vetus homo" (Old Man), arguing that together they convey unregenerate cupidity, pride, and spiritual danger to those who follow the path to which he leads. Includes recurrent contrasts between the Pardoner and the Parson.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Parson and His Tale