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Fallible Authors Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath Alastair Minnis <p>"In pages rich with explication of scholastic, literary, and historical material, Minnis recovers a medieval notion of authorial fallibility."--Seth Lerer, <i>TimesOnline</i></p> <p>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.</p> <p>This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning

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Author

Alastair J. Minnis

Publisher

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812205718

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry