Sin In The Canterbury Tales

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, in particular the Parson’s tale, Chaucer provides a comprehensive list of the Seven Deadly Sins and what each sin entails, including their origins and subsets. Following each chief sin, he offers a remedium (remedy), or virtue, for the corresponding vices – including their subsets as well. Prior to the section in which he offers this guidance, he makes clear his belief that pride is the core of all sin, and that sin itself is a consequence of the internal battle between spirit and flesh. Chaucer’s work, like many alike it, was influenced by the works of Evagrius Ponticus – a Greek religious scholar who lived as a monk in Egypt. Evagrius is widely known as the originator of the list of vices now known