St. Paul and the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Peck, Russell A.

Title
St. Paul and the Canterbury Tales

Published
Mediaevalia 7 (1984 for 1981): 91-131.

Description
Biblical Pauline notions of pilgrimage recur throughout CT, evident in imagery drawn from Paul's letters, although often in "parody and travesty": old men and new men, doctrine amidst enigma, iconography of wells, vessels, widows, musical instruments, and various concepts of time, heritage, and the "search for grace."

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.