The Dismemberment of the Pardoner

The translation of purity in the Old English Lives of St Eugenia and St Euphrosyne

“…90 God obliges and, although the monks pray to find out what has become of her, it/she is not revealed to them. 92 We are not invited to read or learn how to read actively; in demonstrating the futility (or worse, sheer sinfulness) of such attempts, the hagiographic narrative declares the fundamental inaccessibility of true Christian knowledge for the uninitiated. 260; 351) for thirtyeight years.…”