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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Alastair Minnis |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Release |
: 2013-02-12 |
File |
: 528 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780812205718 |
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Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. He addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy, Langland's views on indulgences, Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics, and more.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Alastair Minnis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2009-03-19 |
File |
: 291 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521515948 |
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Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialogue with voices and traditions that surrounded him, and the way that his legacy illuminates the interconnectivity of numerous cultural networks.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Olivia Holmes |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Release |
: 2018-01-01 |
File |
: 452 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781487501785 |
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Building on recent engagements with Barth in the area of theologies of religion, Karl Barth and Comparative Theology inaugurates a new conversation between Barth’s theology and comparative theology. Each essay brings Barth into conversation with theological claims from other religious traditions for the purpose of modeling deep learning across religious borders from a Barthian perspective. For each tradition, two Barth-influenced theologians offer focused engagements of Barth with the tradition’s respective themes and figures, and a response from a theologian from that tradition then follows. With these surprising and stirringly creative exchanges, Karl Barth and Comparative Theology promises to open up new trajectories for comparative theology. Contributors: Chris Boesel, Francis X. Clooney, Christian T. Collins Winn, Victor Ezigbo, James Farwell, Tim Hartman, S. Mark Heim, Paul Knitter, Pan-chiu Lai, Martha L. Moore-Keish, Peter Ochs, Marc Pugliese, Joshua Ralston, Anantanand Rambachan, Randi Rashkover, Kurt Richardson, Mun’im Sirry, John Sheveland, Nimi Wariboko
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Martha L. Moore-Keish |
Publisher |
: Fordham Univ Press |
Release |
: 2019-08-06 |
File |
: 266 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780823284610 |
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Genre |
: Latter Day Saints |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1873 |
File |
: 812 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89067424838 |
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The family magazine of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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: |
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: |
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: 1873 |
File |
: 796 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433082160684 |
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This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Suzanne Conklin Akbari |
Publisher |
: Oxford Handbooks |
Release |
: 2020 |
File |
: 689 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199582655 |
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A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.
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Genre |
: Literary Collections |
Author |
: Larissa Tracy |
Publisher |
: DS Brewer |
Release |
: 2012 |
File |
: 338 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781843842880 |
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: United States |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1847 |
File |
: 924 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000132227889 |
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Genre |
: Bible |
Author |
: Samuel Noble |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1825 |
File |
: 744 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:$B43084 |