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Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath
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, <i>TimesOnline</i>
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  • Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath
  • Written by author Alastair Minnis
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., December 2007
  • 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
  • Alastair Minnis reveals Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath as interconnected aspects of a radical literary experiment, wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before.
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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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