Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative

"This book demonstrates how Chaucer recognized the unsurpassable value of the Bible as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, his self-definition as an author, and the invention of his audience. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer's Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry"--