Abstraction and Particularity in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
McGregor, Francine.

Title
Abstraction and Particularity in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
ChauR 46.1-2 (2011): 60-73.

Description
Assesses the relations between universality and particularity as epistemological modes in MLT, exploring allegory and individuality, realism and nominalism, and generalization and specification in the characterization of Custance and how she is perceived by the other characters. The Tale offers no "unified theory of perception," suggesting instead that perception is "layered."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale