Illicit Country: The Loathly Lady and the Imaginary Foundations of Medieval English Land Law

Author / Editor
Provost, Jeanne.

Title
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.