REVIEWS the glosses and rubrics. To Gillmeister, the final disposition of CTis that of a pilgrims' anthology of allegorical stories promoting the heavenlyJerusa lem (p. 142), with The Parson's Tale its apotheosis. Some readers may favor, on the other hand, such a position as Charles Owen's, that the theological thrust of CT, originally framed by Melibee andParsT, waned as Chaucer grew more and...