La traduction de Gratien en ancien francais et le monde des Plantagenets
- Author / Editor
- Lofstedt, Leena.
La traduction de Gratien en ancien francais et le monde des Plantagenets
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 93 (1992): 325-36.
- Description
- Thomas Becket translated the Decret de Gratien. As chancellor,he (like the Man of Law) must have known "caas and domes all, / That from the tyme of king William were falle" and "every statut . . .pleyn by rote." He must have used this mastery to make his translation of canon law acceptable.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Man of Law and His Tale.