Chaucer and the Bible

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Chaucer and the Bible

Published
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologica Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 270-84.

Description
Explores Chaucer's interest in the Bible and assumes that he possessed his own copy and read it seriously. Suggests that Chacuer's piety may be connected with the late-fourteenth-century courtly interest in Carthusian ideals.

Alternative Title
Philologia Anglica.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.