Chaucer’s Biblical Turn.

Description: Finds Chaucer turning in MilT from classical sources and subject matter in works such as TC, LGW, and KnT, to biblical resources throughout CT. Like the Miller and Nicholas, Chaucer draws on "the cultural authority of the Bible by means of its aesthetic forms (narrative and image) within a narrow range for their own ends." Chaucer's use is "more effective" than the Miller's and Nicholas's, however, "because his authorial persona is decentered rather than self-centered and because his use of the Bible does not challenge the moral force of those of its meanings his culture believed were divine and not secret."

Chaucer Subjects: Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Miller and His Tale