Significance of Pilgrimage in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Thundy, Zacharias P.

Title
Significance of Pilgrimage in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Literary Half-Yearly 20.2 (1979): 64-77.

Description
Chaucer is careful to dwell on the pilgrimage to Canterbury as an interior, not merely as an exterior, experience, thus giving it an allegorical significance. This allegory can be seen as twofold: a journey from reason to faith and a movement from human to divine love.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General