Custance and Ciappelletto in the Middle of It All : Problems of Mediation in the Man of Law's Tale and Decameron 1.1
- Author / Editor
- Hanning, Robert W.
Custance and Ciappelletto in the Middle of It All : Problems of Mediation in the Man of Law's Tale and Decameron 1.1
- Published
- Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 177-211.
- Description
- Both The Man of Law's Tale and Decameron 1.1 consider the problematics of mediation inherent in the use of language. MLT is an exercise for the teller to impress the other pilgrims with his authority and wisdom.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.