Family Values and the Boundaries of Christendom in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Lee, Brian S.
Family Values and the Boundaries of Christendom in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (2004): 23-38
- Description
- Discusses three topics - Ford Madox Brown's painting of Chaucer reading from MLT to a decadent court at a time of dynastic crisis, the current Middle Eastern situation, and the story of Noah's Flood - in relation to Chaucer's portrayal of Custance's wanderings between the extremes of Islamic "heresy," to Northumbrian paganism and Christian apostasy, and to the portrayal of the triumph and continuity of Christianity in MLT, signified by water.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.