Sovereignty Matters: Anachronism, Chaucer's Britain, and England's Future's Past

Author / Editor
Nakley, Susan.

Title
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.