The Question of Authority and the 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Eberle, Patricia J.
The Question of Authority and the 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Published
- Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 111-49.
- Description
- Growing out of the Parliament of 1386 and subsequent confrontations between Richard II and his subjects, arguments over the nature of royal and representative authority shape the portrayal in MLT of pagan savagery, Northumbrian custom, Providential justice, and human obedience.
- Alternative Title
- The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.