Chaucer's Lawyers and Priests

Author / Editor
Heinzelman, Susan Sage.

Title
Chaucer's Lawyers and Priests

Published
Susan Sage Heinzelman. Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature, Parts 1 and 2. The Great Courses (Chantilly, Va.: Teaching Company, 2006), part 1, disc 3, lecture 6; 30 min.

Description
Audio recording (on CD) of a lecture about the "inextricability" of religious and secular law in Chaucer's age as reflected in PardT, ParsT, and especially MLT. Heinzelman contrasts material and spiritual wealth in PardT and ParsT and explores the possibility that human law and divine law are synonymous in MLT.

Alternative Title
Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale.
Parson and His Tale.