The Man of Law's Tale and Rome
- Author / Editor
- Stanbury, Sarah.
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.