Chaucer's Envoy to Bukton and 'Truth' in Biblical Interpretation: Some Medieval and Modern Contexts

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]

Title
Chaucer's Envoy to Bukton and 'Truth' in Biblical Interpretation: Some Medieval and Modern Contexts

Published
New Literary History 22 (1991): 177-97.

Description
Chaucer intended to entertain and edify Bukton by means of a network of biblical allusions that also provide an oblique comment on late-fourteenth-century biblical interpretation.

Chaucer Subjects
Envoy to Bukton