Are the "Canterbury Tales" a Book?

Description: Argues that in their ordering of Chaucer's text and in their various and dynamic forms, manuscripts of CT successfully instantiate Chaucer's dynamic idea of his text, the complex conditions for pre-print book production, and the disaggregated forms of the medieval codex. CT is thus shaped as an answer to the question posted by the title--Are the Canterbury Tales a book?--and to some of Chaucer's broader questions, about experience, authority, and the limits to human modes of knowing.