Playing by the Rules: Sexual Behaviour and Legal Norm in Medieval Europe
- Author / Editor
- Brundage, James A.
Playing by the Rules: Sexual Behaviour and Legal Norm in Medieval Europe
- Published
- Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 23-41.
- Description
- Cites FrT as evidence that the archdeacon's court and its officers were "bitterly disliked," in turn evidence of the gap between legal norms of sexual behavior and actual practice in medieval Europe.
- Alternative Title
- Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.