"Crist spak hymself ful brode in hooly writ": Chaucer, Divine Speech, and the Silent Word.
- Author / Editor
- Greene, Darragh.
"Crist spak hymself ful brode in hooly writ": Chaucer, Divine Speech, and the Silent Word.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 1-31.
- Description
- Considers locations in Chaucer's corpus where he might have depicted divine speech, before highlighting how Jesus' words serve as "auctoritas" in ParsT. Comparing this method to the absence of depictions of divine speech in Chaucer's other works, argues that Ret can be seen as sincere.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction