The Legitimization of Royal Power in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Dugas, Don-John.

Title
The Legitimization of Royal Power in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Modern Philology 95 (1997): 27-43.

Description
Additions to MLT suggest Chaucer's concern with aristocratic power, particularly with "translatio imperii." Considered in the "context of the second decade of Richard II's reign," MLT "subtly legitimizes kingly authority."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.