Lay Literacy and the Medieval Bible
- Author / Editor
- Caie, Graham D.
Lay Literacy and the Medieval Bible
- Published
- Special Issue Nordic Journal of English Studies 3.1 (2004): 125-44.
- Description
- Caie describes how lay people gained access to the Bible in the late Middle Ages through sermons, compendia, and florilegia. Explores how Chaucer characterizes speakers through their uses of the Bible in CT (e.g., quotation, misquotation, selection, allusion), concentrating on the Wife of Bath and glosses to WBP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.