Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale' and the Worlds of Judgment

Author / Editor
Pigg, Daniel F.

Title
Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale' and the Worlds of Judgment

Published
Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough, eds. Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012), pp. 347-58.

Description
Argues that PhyT not only addresses changes in the medieval social power structure, but also serves as a "critique of masculine power" within the medieval European court system.

Contributor
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
Scarborough, Connie, ed.

Alternative Title
Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale