Chaucer's Public Christianity
- Author / Editor
- Watson, Nicholas.
Chaucer's Public Christianity
- Published
- Religion and Literature 37.2 (2005): 99-114.
- Description
- Chaucer's religion is important even in his secular tales, a reflection of his public stance as a lay penitent, a member of the "mediocriter boni," a category of the religious to be distinguished from the contemplative path of the "perfecti." Reads ParsT as a virtual autobiography of Chaucer's view of religion and as indication of how the Pilgrims reflect the values of the "lay religious."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale.