Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Schibanoff, Susan.

Title
Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Exemplaria 8 (1996): 59-96.

Description
The Man of Law uses the discourses of orientalism and antifeminism to suggest the proximity of Islam to Christianity and of women to men, as well as the necessity of reinscribing Muslims and women as clearly delimited Others. MLT attempts to forge a sense of fraternity among the quarrelsome male pilgrims.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.