Chaucer's Monk: An Errant Exegete
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas J.
Chaucer's Monk: An Errant Exegete
- Published
- Journal of Literature and Theology 1 (1987): 192-209.
- Description
- Chaucer's portrait of the Monk is consistent throughout CT. In narrating MkT, the Monk distorts biblical passages such as the Samson exemplum, showing himself remiss in biblical studies just as the GP Monk is lax in other clerical duties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.