In her words, the aim is not to rescue the humanist Chaucer, but to see in what ways his stories might enlarge our perceptions of human life and its possibilities, even though they were written during and for a very different historical context (xviii). ... The same way Clerks tainted the Bible. ... Chaucer is arguing that anyone can pull segments of the Bible and modify them to fit their purpose thus mocking authority. ...

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