Chad D. Schrock is Professor of English at Lee University, USA.

• Introduction 1: Authority: The Miller’s Tale 2: Text: The Pardoner’s Tale 3: Reading with the Greyn: Chaucer’s Virgin Mary 4: Reading against the Grain: The Merchant’s Tale 5: Translation: The Franklin’s Tale 6: Gloss: The Summoner’s Tale 7: Marginalia: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Works Cited

Although the many individual biblical allusions in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have been catalogued and have also often been discussed in treatments of the individual tales in which they occur, Chad D. Schrock is the first to notice their overall significance for Chaucer’s ambition as a Middle English author. Schrock writes very well – his prose often dazzles. It’s a joy to read his work.

Chad D. Schrock is Professor of English at Lee University, USA.

• Introduction 1: Authority: The Miller’s Tale 2: Text: The Pardoner’s Tale 3: Reading with the Greyn: Chaucer’s Virgin Mary 4: Reading against the Grain: The Merchant’s Tale 5: Translation: The Franklin’s Tale 6: Gloss: The Summoner’s Tale 7: Marginalia: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Works Cited

Although the many individual biblical allusions in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have been catalogued and have also often been discussed in treatments of the individual tales in which they occur, Chad D. Schrock is the first to notice their overall significance for Chaucer’s ambition as a Middle English author. Schrock writes very well – his prose often dazzles. It’s a joy to read his work.

Chad D. Schrock is Professor of English at Lee University, USA.

• Introduction 1: Authority: The Miller’s Tale 2: Text: The Pardoner’s Tale 3: Reading with the Greyn: Chaucer’s Virgin Mary 4: Reading against the Grain: The Merchant’s Tale 5: Translation: The Franklin’s Tale 6: Gloss: The Summoner’s Tale 7: Marginalia: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Works Cited

Although the many individual biblical allusions in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have been catalogued and have also often been discussed in treatments of the individual tales in which they occur, Chad D. Schrock is the first to notice their overall significance for Chaucer’s ambition as a Middle English author. Schrock writes very well – his prose often dazzles. It’s a joy to read his work.