'Nat that I chalange any thyng of right': Love, Loyalty, and Legality in the Franklin's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Cartlidge, Neil.
'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.