Custance as God's Merchant in the Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Woods, William F.
Custance as God's Merchant in the Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 7: 84-107, 2000.
- Description
- Reads MLT as an "allegory of will," a Christian response to the "Boethian stoicism" of KnT that transcends mundane mercantilism by dramatizing an "investment of self." As "God's merchant," Custance transforms herself and converts others through a spiritualized form of commercial exchange.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.