ENGLISH 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Geoffrey Chaucer, Indulgence, Middle England
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English 45a lecture 10 pardoner"s introduction, prologue, and tale. Lines 73-74: avarice is all my preaching, because the more successful he is at convincing people holding onto it and to give it to him. Vice: may be seen as identical as sin today but in the middle ages, there was a difference between the action and person who does it. Vice in middle england set of habits/ habitual tendencies. Example: avarice is a greed of consumption (eat, money, drink), which may lead you to be less generous, steal, etc. The vice is not the act but the want to commit these things you don"t commit a vice, you have one. Page 344: great swearing vs. false swearing. Use terms that are meant to be held in reverence. Great swearing: calling god for something small. False swearing: lying and calling god to witness. Pardoner doesn"t have a very official role in church (not a priest)
