The Legitimization of Royal Power in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dugas, Don-John.
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.