Illicit Country: The Loathly Lady and the Imaginary Foundations of Medieval English Land Law
- Author / Editor
- Provost, Jeanne.
Illicit Country: The Loathly Lady and the Imaginary Foundations of Medieval English Land Law
- Published
- DAI A71.05 (2010): n.p.
- Description
- Suggests that the "Loathly Lady" is an anthropomorphic representation of the land, linking human vagaries with the uncertain product of working any given land and underscoring the impossibility of human attempts to control and regulate the natural world.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.