'To Scotlond-ward His Foomen for to Seke': Chaucer, the Scots, and the Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Goldstein, R. James.
'To Scotlond-ward His Foomen for to Seke': Chaucer, the Scots, and the Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 31-42.
- Description
- Places the anti-Scottish legendary history of MLT into English historiographic tradition, especially Trevet's Chronicle. Argues that Chaucer implicitly supports England's claim to the overlordship of Scotland, a claim renewed by Henry IV and indirectly endorsed in Chaucer's "Purse."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.