The Celtic Gospels in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Breeze, Andrew.
The Celtic Gospels in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 335-38.
- Description
- The "Britoun book, written with Evaungiles," on which Constance's false accuser swears before being struck dead, is likely to have been a Latin gospel book illuminated in Celtic. Such a book (like the Gospel of Gildas) was said to have the power to shorten the life of anyone convicted of perjury.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.