Constancy Humanized: Trivet's Constance and the Man of Law's Custance

Author / Editor
Miller, Robert P.

Title
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.