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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 perenni...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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