'Diversitee bitwene hir bothe lawes': Chaucer's Unlikely Alliance of a Lawyer and a Merchant

Author / Editor
Lynch, Kathryn L.

Title
'Diversitee bitwene hir bothe lawes': Chaucer's Unlikely Alliance of a Lawyer and a Merchant

Published
ChauR 46.1-2 (2011): 74-92.

Description
Considers how the "professional identity" of the teller informs concerns with justice in MLT. Engagement with mercantile law, common law, natural law, divine intervention, and the "limitations of human justice" pervade MLPT and indicate an uncertain sense of their relations and hierarchy.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale