The Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Landman, James H.
The Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the 'Canon's Yeoman's Tale'
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998): 389-425.
- Description
- Both CYPT and the "Book of Margery Kempe" raise questions about community and selfhood. In each, an individual criticizes his or her community to the members of a different, markedly less local community. The two texts suggest the precariousness of individual and community self-definitions, and their tensions complicate the distinction between "medieval" and "modern," suggesting the possibility of a distinctly "late medieval" selfhood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.