Chaucer's Biblical Turn.

Author / Editor
Schrock, Chad.

Title
Chaucer's Biblical Turn.

Published
Modern Language Review 114 (2019): 643-61.

Description
Examines biblical images, allusions, themes, and narrative patterns in MilPT, exploring various ways that the Miller and Nicholas appropriate the Bible's "authority for personal rhetorical ends." Chaucer's providence-like control of his material is also anchored in biblical (rather than classical) precedent and it reflects the late medieval literary authority of Scripture, a concern Chaucer pursues elsewhere in CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General