'Of Pilgrims and Parables': The Influence of the Vulgate Parables on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Wheeler, Lyle Kip.

Title
'Of Pilgrims and Parables': The Influence of the Vulgate Parables on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI 62 : 2756A, 2002.

Description
Chaucer's use of the Vulgate parables influenced the frame structure of CT, provided a number of images, and strongly affected PardT. Wheeler tallies allusions to and quotations from the parables throughout CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Pardoner and His Tale.