The Counsel Group: Rhetorical and Political Contexts of Court Counsel in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Guidry, Marc S.

Title
The Counsel Group: Rhetorical and Political Contexts of Court Counsel in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 2224A.

Description
As diplomat, MP, and associate of important political figures, Chaucer understood the operation of government and its rhetoric, reflected in Mel, MLT, ClT, KnT, and MerT. Chaucer's themes of class and gender relate to the nature of counsel-taking.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.