Fallible Authors : : Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath / / Alastair Minnis.
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 perenni...
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Minnis, Alastair, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fallible Authors : Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath / Alastair Minnis. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013] ©2008 1 online resource (528 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Middle Ages Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Authority and Fallibility in Medieval Textual Culture -- Chapter 1. De officio praedicatoris: Of Preaching, Pardons, and Power -- Chapter 2. Moral Fallibility: Chaucer's Pardoner and the OfWce of Preacher -- Chapter 3. De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and the Prohibition of Priestly Power -- Chapter 4. Gender as Fallibility: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and the Impediment of Sex -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Biblical Citations -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 subversively, the Wife of Bath, who represents one of the most despised stereotypes in medieval literature, the sexually rapacious widow, dispenses wisdom of the highest order.This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning. Alastair Minnis magisterially examines the impact of Aristotelian thought on preaching theory, the controversial practice of granting indulgences, religious and medical categorizations of deviant bodies, theological attempts to rationalize sex within marriage, Wycliffite doctrine that made authority dependent on individual grace and raised the specter of Donatism, and heretical speculation concerning the possibility of female teachers. Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath are revealed as interconnected aspects of a single radical experiment wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook-Package Literature 9783110413540 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812240306 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205718 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205718 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205718/original |
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