Abuse of Authority in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Justman, Stewart Martin.

Title
Abuse of Authority in Chaucer

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 3607A.

Description
Theoretical "auctoritee" and "auctoritee" as misunderstood by characters in Chaucer are worlds apart. Chaucer was more interested in the violability than in the inviolability of "auctoritee." Many of the Canterbury Tales depend on cases which jeopardize formal social arrangements.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.