Chaucer's Man of Law and Boethian 'Bad Fortune'

Author / Editor
Umland, Sam.

Title
Chaucer's Man of Law and Boethian 'Bad Fortune'

Published
Platte Valley Review 21 (Winter 1993): 17-33.

Description
In the GP sketch and in MLPT, Chaucer characterizes his Man of Law as one who does not recognize Divine design behind the pattern of natural events, eternal law behind natural law. The Man of Law errs in focusing on temporal events, failing to perceive Boethian "endes of thynges" that are part of Divine plan.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.