Chaucer's Vows and How They Break : Transgression in The Manciple's Tale

Author / Editor
Jost, Jean E.

Title
Chaucer's Vows and How They Break : Transgression in The Manciple's Tale

Published
Albrecht Classen, ed. Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 267-87.

Series
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, no. 278.

Description
Explores vows and vow-breaking in CT, arguing that ManT brings to tragic crescendo a concern with the transgression of marital vows and presents consequences as horrific as any in Greek drama.

Contributor
Classen, Albrecht, ed.

Alternative Title
Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
Canterbury Tales--General.