The 'Man of Law's Tale': Aesthetics and Christianity in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Johnson, William C.,Jr.

Title
The 'Man of Law's Tale': Aesthetics and Christianity in Chaucer

Published
Chaucer Review 16 (1982): 201-21.

Description
MLT is a test case of Chaucer's use of Christian materials directed toward a "new human center." Christ and Christianity are uniquely transformed into a pervasive humanism, through Chaucer's tolerant ambivalence.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.