The Man of Law's St. Custance: Sex and the Saeculum

Author / Editor
Furrow, Melissa M.

Title
The Man of Law's St. Custance: Sex and the Saeculum

Published
Chaucer Review 24 (1990): 223-35.

Description
The tale of Custance is related to medieval lives of sainted women but is opposed to them in its concentration on the secular relations of an ordinary woman. Through this tale, the Man of Law seeks to reconcile the conflicting claims of the divine and the worldly.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.