Hymeneal Alogic: Debating Political Community in The Parliament of Fowls

Author / Editor
Davis, Kathleen.

Title
Hymeneal Alogic: Debating Political Community in The Parliament of Fowls

Published
Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 161-90.

Description
Parallels between the sex/gender system and establishing medieval English identity indicate that the perceived doubleness of woman echoes that of the nation. PF does not fantasize about a unified nation, but it does produce "England" as a site of social contestation.

Alternative Title
Imagining a Medieval English Nation

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.