'This Was a Thrifty Tale for the Nones': Chaucer's Man of Law

Author / Editor
Caie, Graham D.

Title
'This Was a Thrifty Tale for the Nones': Chaucer's Man of Law

Published
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 47-60.

Description
Examines several glosses to MLT to argue that the "glossator's aim is to show the reader how the narrator manipulates texts," helping us to realize that the Man of Law is too interested in "things of this world and is spiritually lacking."

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.