Servant and Lord/Lady and Wife: The 'Franklin's Tale' and Conjugal Love

Author / Editor
Taylor, Mark N.

Title
Servant and Lord/Lady and Wife: The 'Franklin's Tale' and Conjugal Love

Published
Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 64-81.

Description
Finds parallels between FranT and Chretien de Troyes's "Eric and Enid" as both courtly texts and antiadulterous ones. Chaucer's contribution to the dialectic is the integration of "fin'amour" with Truth expressed as Christian virtue, defending courtly love against the tradition of adulterous love.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.