Chaucer and Lollardy

Author / Editor
McCormack, Frances M.

Title
Chaucer and Lollardy

Published
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 35-40.

Description
Explores Chaucer's "employment of Lollard ideas and motifs" in the CT, particularly in ParsPT and WBP, and in the G version of the LGWP. Argues that Chaucer's rhetoric and portrayal of Lollardy reflects how he wants readers to understand the "disorder of his age."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Religion.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Parson and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Legend of Good Women