the canterbury tales (the Pardoner)
THE PARDONER
Pardoners were granters of papal indulgences, which means penance in exchange for charitable donations to the church.(The Canterbury Tales. By Nevill Coghill.pp. 11.) The Pardoner was a church official who had the authority from Rome to sell pardons to those charged with sins. He had just returned from Rome with a bag full of pardons, which he planned to sell to the ignorant at a great profit to himself.(World Masterpieces. By …
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…and take their money. Fortunately they are smart enough to realize his way and what he is trying to do and they refuse.
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**Bibliography**
Works Cited
Coghill, Nevill. The Canterbury Tales. Baltimore:
Peguin Books, 1972
Lawall, Sarah ed. World Masterpieces. New York:
W.W. Norton and Company, 1999
Owens, Charles A. Jr. Discussions of the Canterbury Tales. Boston:
D.C. Heath, 1961
** Visual representation of the Pardoner Photocopied from handout given to class on Friday December 1st, 2000.
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