Constancy Humanized: Trivet's Constance and the Man of Law's Custance
- Author / Editor
- Miller, Robert P.
Constancy Humanized: Trivet's Constance and the Man of Law's Custance
- Published
- Costerus 3 (1975): 49-71.
- Description
- The Man of Law in his Prologue, in his characterization of Custance, and in his concept of Christ's "prudent purveiaunce" consistently revises his sources, especially Nicholas Trevet, into the materialistic terms of the world governed by Fortune. This preoccupation with good fortune rather than salvation completes the irony of GP's portrait.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.