Reader week 11

Question 1

Exemplification

Answer 1

treats facts or events (real or imagined) as examples which demonstrate some general truth

requires generalisation
Pardoner’s Tale

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

treats facts or events as metaphors which represent some truth or some other event

requires translation
makes significations explicit

Question 3

Patristic criticism

Answer 3

Medieval view of text and New Historicism

texts should be assessed with context in mind

Question 4

Ethice subponitur

Answer 4

Literature pertains to ethics

NPT: all that is written/ is written to our doctrine

Question 5

Use of literature

Answer 5

shell: entertainment

true goal: profiting message

Question 6

Scripture according to St. Augustine

Answer 6

Scripture teaches nothing but charity, nor condemns anything besides cupidity

Question 7

Man’s two natures

Answer 7

Higher nature: charity (reason, virtue, spirit)

Lower nature: cupidity (lust, sin, flesh)

Question 8

Levels of meaning

Answer 8

Literal: historical, what has been done
Allegorical: what we should believe
Tropological: morality, what we should do
Anagogical: after life, what we can expect

Question 9

Biblical glosses

Answer 9

like Glossa Ordinaria
used to ‘explain’ what the bible means
went really far
Later other glosses were made to explain non-biblical books

Question 10

Symbolic meaning of a pelican

Answer 10

symbolises Christ’s sacrifice

Question 11

GP description Prioress

Answer 11

reference to Matthew, about hypocrites

Question 12

Chaucer’s Summoner

Answer 12

garlic and such –> delights of this world are full of tears

Or reference to Numbers, where Hebrews remembered what they ate in Egypt

OR the summoner loves things that aggravate his own discomfort

Question 13

NPT: characters

Answer 13

represent a humanity that is monstrous