Übersetzung für 'pardoner' von Englisch nach Deutsch

pardoner

Ablasshändler {m}relig.

• In the medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale in "The Canterbury Tales", this lesson was illustrated.
• The Host then asks the Pardoner to "telle us som myrthe or japes jest right anon".
• The Pardoner stays behind at the inn with the intention of sleeping with Kit.
• He illustrated this with examples from Anglo-Saxon literature such as "The Pardoner's Tale".
• "The Pardoner's Tale" is a tale in the form of a moral example.

• But Lazarillo speaks of "the blind man," "the squire," "the pardoner," presenting these characters as types.
• Dante's near-contemporary, Geoffrey Chaucer, wrote of greed in his "Prologue to The Pardoner's Tale" these words: "Radix malorum est Cupiditas"(or "the root of all evil is greed"); however the Pardoner himself serves us as a caricature of churchly greed.
• Some hackers have become known as pardoners because they can arrange for people to escape the aliens' sentences in exchange for profit.