04101nam 2200649Ia 450 991078752410332120220304032410.00-8122-0571-510.9783/9780812205718(CKB)2670000000418269(OCoLC)859160888(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748567(SSID)ssj0001053289(PQKBManifestationID)11674606(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053289(PQKBWorkID)11114080(PQKB)10878568(MdBmJHUP)muse26106(DE-B1597)449718(OCoLC)979756379(DE-B1597)9780812205718(Au-PeEL)EBL3442141(CaPaEBR)ebr10748567(CaONFJC)MIL682482(OCoLC)932313075(MiAaPQ)EBC3442141(EXLCZ)99267000000041826920080625d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFallible authors[electronic resource] Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath /Alastair MinnisPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20081 online resource (527 p.)The Middle Ages seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51200-0 0-8122-4030-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-488) and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: Authority and Fallibility in Medieval Textual Culture --Chapter 1. De officio praedicatoris: Of Preaching, Pardons, and Power --Chapter 2. Moral Fallibility: Chaucer's Pardoner and the OfWce of Preacher --Chapter 3. De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and the Prohibition of Priestly Power --Chapter 4. Gender as Fallibility: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and the Impediment of Sex --List of Abbreviations --Notes --Bibliography --General Index --Index of Biblical Citations --AcknowledgmentsCan 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 perennial issues through two problematic authority figures, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The Pardoner dares to assume official roles to which he has no legal claim and for which he is quite unsuited. We are faced with the shocking consequences of the belief, standard for the time, that immorality is not necessarily a bar to effective ministry. Even more subversively, the Wife of Bath, who represents one of the most despised stereotypes in medieval literature, the sexually rapacious widow, dispenses wisdom of the highest order. This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning. Alastair Minnis magisterially examines the impact of Aristotelian thought on preaching theory, the controversial practice of granting indulgences, religious and medical categorizations of deviant bodies, theological attempts to rationalize sex within marriage, Wycliffite doctrine that made authority dependent on individual grace and raised the specter of Donatism, and heretical speculation concerning the possibility of female teachers. Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath are revealed as interconnected aspects of a single radical experiment wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before.Middle Ages series.LiteratureHistory and criticismCultural Studies.Literature.LiteratureHistory and criticism.821/.1Minnis A. J(Alastair J.)185619MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787524103321Fallible authors3697130UNINA02310nam 2200589 450 991082169790332120230725032053.01-283-16358-697866131635851-4094-3882-1(CKB)2670000000105670(EBL)731376(OCoLC)745865811(SSID)ssj0000744498(PQKBManifestationID)12349063(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000744498(PQKBWorkID)10851325(PQKB)10835572(MiAaPQ)EBC731376(Au-PeEL)EBL731376(CaPaEBR)ebr11040363(CaONFJC)MIL316358(EXLCZ)99267000000010567020150416h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe tightrope a story of fraud and corruption /Nigel Iyer[Surrey, England] :Gower,2011.©20111 online resource (95 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4094-3881-3 Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Act 1: The Awakening; Act 2: The Dilemma; Act 3: The Tone at the Top; Epilogue; About the AuthorThe life of Andre Stacey, a yes-man and pen-pusher is turned upside down when an anonymous tip-off forces him to examine the workings of his company, the behaviour of his colleagues and maybe most importantly, his own actions and aspirations. Should Andre be looking for the culprit or is there something much larger at stake? Where does the buck stop and is the ""stop at nothing approach"" of the enigmatic investigator Max de Gras always the best alternative?Andre's biggest supporter, John Thornbury-Steven, is the brains behind the phoenix-like revival of the N-Trex Corporation , . But what doeCorporationsCorrupt practicesFraudBusinessCorporationsCorrupt practices.Fraud.Business.658.473Iyer Nigel899938MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821697903321The tightrope3934247UNINA