Chaucer's 'Wife,' the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays
- Author / Editor
- Salisbury, Eve.
Chaucer's 'Wife,' the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays
- Published
- Jacek Fisiak and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds. Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 347-75.
- Description
- Assesses how WBT, FranT, and other Breton lays in Middle English "underwrite and reinforce the laws of the land"--laws that allowed for domestic violence and left ambiguous the relations between rape and marriage.
- Alternative Title
- Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Young-Bae Park.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.