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Preface xi
Introduction: Authority and Fallibility in Medieval Textual Culture 1
De officio praedicatoris: Of Preaching, Pardons, and Power 36
Constructing the Preacher: Authority, Knowledge, Attributes 37
The Sinful Preacher: Secrecy, Scandal, and Skill 40
Art versus Virtue: The Challenge of Aristotle 48
Theory into Practice: Codes of Conduct in Preachers' Handbooks 51
Consecrating the Sacraments: Priestly Power and the Keys to Heaven 54
Sin versus Sacrament: Evil Ministers of the Mass 55
Vetula baptizat, et baptizatum est: The Power to Baptize 62
Authority and Agency in the Tribunal of Penance 68
Making Indulgences: Spiritual and Material Economies 74
Marketing the Divine Mercy 78
Authority and Jurisdiction in the Dispensing of Pardon 87
Honoring Becket: The Case for Canterbury 91
Moral Fallibility: Chaucer's Pardoner and the Office of Preacher 98
Alms and the Man: The Deviant Pardoner 99
Prechyng for coveityse: The Deviant Preacher 118
Breaking Bodies: The Drunkard's Eucharist 135
Geldyng or mare: The Deviant Body 147
Chaucer and the Queering Eunuch 152
Reclaiming Public Deviancy 161
De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and the Prohibition of Priestly Power 170
Sex versus Sacrament: The Constrictions of Symbolism 173
Sexus non est in anima: Orthodox Positions 175
Crowning Glories 180
A Woman's Touch 182
Silence in Church: Private Teaching and the Denial of Public Office 183
Confining the auditrix and doctrix 183
Limiting Biblical Precedent 189
Unnatural Selection: Authorization Through Inspiration 199
Prophecy and Purity of Life: In Defense of Holy Women 200
Affirming Biblical Precedent 207
Sexus non est in anima: Heterodox Reactions 210
John Wyclif: A Shameless Worker for Women? 211
Walter Brut: Female Ministry in the Absence of Men 221
Confronting the praedicatrix 226
Feminizing Donatism 231
Women Priests and Absolute Power 236
Changing Bodies: Pythagoras and the Transactions of Polemic 240
Gender as Fallibility: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and the Impediment of Sex 246
Alisoun Among the auctoritees 250
Unbridling Desire: Female Sexuality and the Making of Marriage 264
An Unstable Human Matter 264
Only for Amorous Love 282
Old Wives' Tales: Vetularity and Virtue 294
Challenging Obscenity: From coilles to bel chose 295
The Wisdom of Old Women 307
Beyond the Body? Alisoun on Sovereignty of Soul 312
The Lusts of Loathly Damsels: Sovereignty as Sexual Possession 313
Sourcing Dominion: gentillesse and Gender 315
Publishing the Private 332
List of Abbreviations 349
Notes 353
Bibliography 467
General Index 489
Index of Biblical Citations 505
Acknowledgments 509
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Add Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath, Fallible Authors Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath Alastair Minnis In pages rich with explication of scholastic, literary, and historical material, Minnis recovers a medieval notion of authorial fallibility.--Seth Lerer, TimesOnline Can a, Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath to your collection on WonderClub |