Nature's 'Yerde' and 'Warde': Authority and Choice in 'Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Havely, Nick.
Nature's 'Yerde' and 'Warde': Authority and Choice in 'Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- Seeta Chaganti, ed. Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), pp. 109-23.
- Description
- Reads the relationship between the formel and Nature in PF in light of late medieval practices of wardship, informed by attention to "yerde" as an emblem of authority. Comments on the formel's decision not to marry and on parallels between the formel and Criseyde in Book II of TC.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde