The Man of Law's St. Custance: Sex and the Saeculum
- Author / Editor
- Furrow, Melissa M.
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.