Adventurous Custance: St. Thomas of Acre and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale

Author / Editor
Warner, Lawrence.

Title
Adventurous Custance: St. Thomas of Acre and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale

Published
Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 43-59.

Description
Warner examines affiliations of the London Church of St. Thomas of Acre with mercantile interests that, in turn, help to clarify features of MLT, including its concerns with merchants, with the Crusades, and with legal discourse. MLT also explores modes of adventuring.

Alternative Title
Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale