Chaucer, the Church, and Religion
- Author / Editor
- Ackerman, Robert W.
Chaucer, the Church, and Religion
- Published
- Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 21-41.
- Description
- References to popular Christianity pervade Chaucer's work, especially CT and the shorter poems, but these usually concern the lower clergy and routine matters. His canon does not include ponderous didactic allegory or theological treatises.
- Added in the revised edition, replacing Olson's "Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century Society."
- Alternative Title
- Companion to Chaucer Studies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.