'Pennance Profytable': The Currency of Custance in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hendrix, Laurel L.
'Pennance Profytable': The Currency of Custance in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Exemplaria 6 (1994): 141-66.
- Description
- The Man of Law erases distinctions among spiritual, linguistic, and monetary exchange by trying to turn Custance and Christ into signs that can be circulated and traded for profit, raising the question of whether his tale is "true coining."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.