'Nat that I chalange any thyng of right': Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Cartlidge, Neil.

Title
'Nat that I chalange any thyng of right': Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale

Published
Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 115-30.

Description
In FranT, Chaucer presents a "moral dilemma that might be described as scholastic in its contrived intractability." The "quaestio disputanda" posed at the end of FranT compels readers to confront the Tale's irresolvable legal complexities of contract. Cartlidge shows parallels with other medieval texts that have legal implications.

Alternative Title
Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.