Reading for Christ: Interpretation and Instruction in Late Medieval England

Author / Editor
Little, Katherine Clover.

Title
Reading for Christ: Interpretation and Instruction in Late Medieval England

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 5136A.

Description
Examines Wycliffite sermons and the opposing views of William Thorpe and Nicholas Love to compare Lollard and orthodox views of narrative and of the individual. Chaucer's awareness of the conflict, his refusal to take sides, and the futility of claiming absolute truth are revealed in PardPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.