Engendering Authority: Father and Daughter, State and Church in Gower's 'Tale of Constance' and Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Bullon-Fernandez, Maria.

Title
Engendering Authority: Father and Daughter, State and Church in Gower's 'Tale of Constance' and Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
R. F. Yeager, ed. Re-Visioning Gower (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 1998), pp. 129-46.

Description
In Gower's version of the Constance story, incest is a metaphor for the relationship between the Church and the crown, a means to critique the two. In contrast, MLT "tries to avoid suggesting any tension between lay and clerical power."

Contributor
Yeager, R. F.,ed.

Alternative Title
Re-Visioning Gower.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.