Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s Tale”

Medieval Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

First published in 1400, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by the famed English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. “The Pardoner’s Tale,” which appears halfway through the collection, is an exemplum, a medieval literary and oratorical form often used in sermons to demonstrate a moral principle. “The Pardoner’s Tale” illustrates the […]

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