'A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon': Constructions of Genealogy in the Clerk's Tale and the Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Florschuetz, Angela.
'A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon': Constructions of Genealogy in the Clerk's Tale and the Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 44 (2009): 25-60.
- Description
- ClT and MLT dramatize contemporary uncertainties concerning the extent of a mother's genetic "influence" on her offspring, even as they critique the "fantasy of an autonomous male line." Given that disputes regarding monarchal succession formed the crux of the Hundred Years' War, these two portions of CT also critique the French tendency to deny maternal transmission of royal blood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale