Social Limitations on Chaucer's Knowledge of Scripture: Quoting and Cribbing from the Bible in'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Hadden, Barney Craig.

Title
Social Limitations on Chaucer's Knowledge of Scripture: Quoting and Cribbing from the Bible in'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 3519A.

Description
Defines the extent of the laity's knowlege of the Bible in late-fourteenth-century England.
Chaucer knew relatively little scripture, apparently never having read the Bible through. ParsT is almost certainly an early work.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Canterbury Tales--General.
Parson and His Tale.