Chaucer and the Rhetoric of Justice
- Author / Editor
- Dobyns, Ann.
Chaucer and the Rhetoric of Justice
- Published
- Disputatio 4: 75-89, 1999.
- Description
- Situates Chaucer's attitudes toward law and legal process in late-medieval thought, discussing statute law, legal procedures of resolution by love, and Italian, Thomistic, post-Glossarian philosophy of law. Tale-telling and pilgrimage represent two different kinds of legal contract. In Mel, Chaucer suggests that humankind must negotiate tensions within the law in ways that reflect the natural law of love.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Tale of Melibee.