A Sergeant of the Lawe, War and Wyse
- Author / Editor
- Hornsby, Joseph.
A Sergeant of the Lawe, War and Wyse
- Published
- Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 116-34.
- Description
- Surveys the development of the legal profession in medieval England as background to understanding how the GP sketch of the Man of Law is a "thumbnail sketch of a common lawyer," focusing on his status as a "sergeant." MLT capitalizes on the myth that English common law had ancient roots, perhaps even grounded in divine law.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and his Tale.