City, Marriage, Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, Louise Olga.
City, Marriage, Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland
- Published
- Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
- Description
- Chapter 8 discusses differences between aristocratic and lower-class desire in PF, exploring how endless desire establishes sovereignty in the poem. The essay also assesses the relations of the poem with Scots tradition, especially the version of the Selden Arch B.24 manuscript, which closes in unique fashion: A peacock recommends that the royal eagle win the formel eagle and that the other birds also choose permanent mates.
- Nature concurs, the birds choose, and the poem returns to a "still-reading dreamer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.