Fallible authors : Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath /
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perenni...
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Philadelphia :
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2008
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Authority and Fallibility in Medieval Textual Culture; Chapter 1. De officio praedicatoris: Of Preaching, Pardons, and Power; I. Constructing the Preacher: Authority, Knowledge, Attributes; The Sinful Preacher: Secrecy, Scandal, and Skill; Art versus Virtue: The Challenge of Aristotle; Theory into Practice: Codes of Conduct in Preachers' Handbooks; II. Consecrating the Sacraments: Priestly Power and the Keys to Heaven; Sin versus Sacrament: Evil Ministers of the Mass; Vetula baptizat, et baptizatum est: The Power to Baptize.
- Authority and Agency in the Tribunal of PenanceIII. Making Indulgences: Spiritual and Material Economies; Marketing the Divine Mercy; Authority and Jurisdiction in the Dispensing of Pardon; Honoring Becket: The Case for Canterbury; Chapter 2. Moral Fallibility: Chaucer's Pardoner and the Office of Preacher; I. Alms and the Man: The Deviant Pardoner; II. Prechyng for coveityse: The Deviant Preacher; III. Breaking Bodies: The Drunkard's Eucharist; IV. Geldyng or mare: The Deviant Body; Chaucer and the Queering Eunuch; Reclaiming Public Deviancy.
- Chapter 3. De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and the Prohibition of Priestly PowerI. Sex versus Sacrament: The Constrictions of Symbolism; Sexus non est in anima: Orthodox Positions; Crowning Glories; A Woman's Touch; II. Silence in Church: Private Teaching and the Denial of Public Office; Confining the auditrix and doctrix; Limiting Biblical Precedent; III. Unnatural Selection: Authorization Through Inspiration; Prophecy and Purity of Life: In Defense of Holy Women; Affirming Biblical Precedent; IV. Sexus non est in anima: Heterodox Reactions; John Wyclif: A Shameless Worker for Women?
- Walter Brut: Female Ministry in the Absence of MenConfronting the praedicatrix; Feminizing Donatism; Women Priests and Absolute Power; Changing Bodies: Pythagoras and the Transactions of Polemic; Chapter 4. Gender as Fallibility: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and the Impediment of Sex; I. Alisoun Among the auctoritees; II. Unbridling Desire: Female Sexuality and the Making of Marriage; An Unstable Human Matter; Only for Amorous Love; III. Old Wives' Tales: Vetularity and Virtue; Challenging Obscenity: From coilles to bel chose; The Wisdom of Old Women.
- IV. Beyond the Body? Alisoun on Sovereignty of SoulThe Lusts of Loathly Damsels: Sovereignty as Sexual Possession; Sourcing Dominion: gentillesse and Gender; Publishing the Private; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Biblical Citations; Acknowledgments.
