Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales. But, sirs, there’s one thing I forgot to add: I’ve got relics and pardons in my bag As good as anybody’s in England, All given to me by the Pope’s own hand. If any here should wish, out of devotion, To make an offering, and have absolution, Let them come forward now, and kneeling down Humbly receive my blessing and pardon. What feature of medieval life is reflected in the passage?
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The Canterbury Tales are the wonderful collection of 24 stories that runs to make over 17000 lines written in Middle English. The tale was written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. Chaucer becomes Controller of Customs and Justice of peace in Mind. These lines tell the gathering of people at the Tabard and preparing for their journey to the shrine of St. Becket.
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The Church and religion have always suffered from many flaws; flaws such as buying and selling of divine things such as pardon, blessings from God, etc. This passage reflects the influence of money or mammon in divine things. Here the speaker is offering pardon and absolution for one's sins against a payment. The speaker is stating that some of the pardons are directly from the Pope himself.
This selling and buying of pardons is characteristic in all all churches in all ages. It is ridiculous; God neither pardons or grants absolution against payments. He has His own mysterious ways to do that. It is only man who distorts church doctrines and brings in trading even in God's church.
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