The Man of Law's Tale and Rome

Author / Editor
Stanbury, Sarah.

Title
The Man of Law's Tale and Rome

Published
Exemplaria 22 (2010): 119-37.

Description
For Chaucer, Rome is an ancient imperial capital, a goal of medieval pilgrimage, and a center of trade--trade in devotions, indulgences, and pardons that allies mercantilism and religion. Such a Roman transaction also involves relics or monuments, and in MLT its most Christian "commodity" is Custance herself, the object of exchange, who becomes "an alternative to devotional images and relics."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.