note to self re pardoner paper

Note to self: Don’t forget to counter the view among a couple (?) of Pardoner critics that he was punished, or did feel the consequences of his hypocrisy (or a deeper sin?). I think it is the critics bringing in Augustine who say this. But I would answer that there is no sign of the [...]

scriptura creatio ex nihilo

Whew, I feel as if I didn’t get much done this weekend, even though I finally came up with a workable and original thesis and an outline for my Pardoner paper. And that’s A LOT. It often takes me a long time to get that, and once I do, it feels like down-hill from there. [...]

Chaucer came to our Writing Center staff meeting

At our last writing assistant staff meeting (last Thursday), I had the idea to have them read a section of one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in middle English. I had noticed, when I was reading the middle English myself this quarter, that (of course) my comprehension would fade in and out, like a radio losing [...]

Chaucer Pardoner stuff to get at library (often updated)

Gabriele Cocco. “I Trowe He were a Gelding or a Mare. A Veiled Description of a Bent Pardoner.” Neophilologus (2008) 92:359–366. Downloaded PDF.
Rowland, Beryl. Animal Imagery and the Pardoner’s Abnormality. Neophilologus Volume 48 Issue 1, 56-60. Dec 1964. Req’d via Summit 05-11-08 (U of O).
Green, Richard Firth. “Further Evidence for Chaucer’s Representation of the [...]