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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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