'Auctours' and 'Rehercers': Chaucer, Wyclif, and the Language of Authority
- Author / Editor
- Michalczyk, Maria.
'Auctours' and 'Rehercers': Chaucer, Wyclif, and the Language of Authority
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 846A.
- Description
- Wyclif believed in the absolute authority of Scripture, with the mission of the Church as simple transmission without modification. In SumT, CYT, NPT, and ParsT, Chaucer questions the possibility of rehearsing truth inasmuch as the speakers distort it by making their own.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.