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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Pardoner"”.
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
<p><em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em>, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, is a fourteenth-century allegory against gluttony, told by a corrupt, gluttonous pardoner to the rest of the pilgrims on their way to St. Thomas Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. In the Pardoner’s initial …
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English Literature's Father of Authorial Androgyny: The Innovative Perspective of Chaucer and the Wife of Bath
This thesis seeks to examine Geoffrey Chaucer as English literature’s father of authorial androgyny, specifically through an analysis of his Wife of Bath character. Through a close reading of the “General Prologue” descriptions of the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath as well as an analysis of the …
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
Many of the bestiaries that survive from medieval England were produced by monastic orders such as the Benedictines. However, there is evidence of a widespread understanding of the bestiary’s system of imagery and moralizations by the fourteenth century, which exclusively monastic use does not …
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
This dissertation explores the utopian and dystopian tones of apocalypticism in medieval secular literature and how literary authors treated the end of time. Beginning with two different representational models of medieval apocalyptic, notably those of St Augustine of Hippo and of Joachim of Fiore, …
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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
The evolution of the concept of penance during the Middle Ages in England reflects the influence of many geopolitical sources, as well as the expanding influence/maturation of the Roman Catholic Church and the development of sacramental rituals during this period. One of these sacraments was …