Tropological Woman in Chaucer: Literary Elaborations of an Exegetical Tradition

Author / Editor
Heinrichs, Katherine.

Title
Tropological Woman in Chaucer: Literary Elaborations of an Exegetical Tradition

Published
English Studies 76 (1995): 209-14.

Description
Allusions to the Fall appear in at least half of the tales in CT, but a full tropological reading occurs only in ParsT (10.330), where the allegory explains that "the image of God in man guarantees our ability to rise after a fall."

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.