In the prologue he says that he always preaches against greed, quoting from the Latin Bible (1 Timothy 6 verse 10) Radix mallorum est cupiditas: the root of all evil is greed or avarice. The Pardoner’s tale consists of two parts: a prologue and a story. Pardoners often cheated and took part of this money for themselves. He was endowed by the Pope with the authority to reward donors with some temporal remission of sins or punishment and to issue indulgences (Abrams, 1993, p. In medieval times a pardoner collected money for charitable purposes from churchgoers. The Pardoner’s tale is to some extent an exception in that its theme is greed and money. Many stories deal with sexual adventures and deceit and almost all contain obsceneties. Thomas á Beckett, who was murdered in 1170 in Canterbury cathedral. Introduction.Ĭhaucer’s 22 Canterbury Tales consist of a variety of stories, purportedly told by piligrims on their way to the shrine of St. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Pardoner’s tale (1387-1400).
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