Fallible Authors
Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial issues through two problematic authority figures, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The Pardoner dares to assume official roles to which he has no legal claim and for which he is quite unsuited. We are faced with the shocking consequences of the belief, standard for the time, that immorality is not necessarily a bar to effective ministry. Even more…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0571-8
- EAN: 9780812205718
- Produktnummer: 17002569
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 954 KB
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By Alastair Minnis
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