Sovereignty Matters: Anachronism, Chaucer's Britain, and England's Future's Past
- Author / Editor
- Nakley, Susan.
Sovereignty Matters: Anachronism, Chaucer's Britain, and England's Future's Past
- Published
- Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 368-96.
- Description
- The "temporal disorder" and "internationalism" of MLT--combined with its examination of competing familial and institutional loyalty--depict sovereignty as a redemptive governmental form capable of healing the ills of late medieval England, including "its language . . . and its institutions of marriage, Church, and law."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.