The Physician's 'Historial Thyng Notable' and the Man of Law

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
The Physician's 'Historial Thyng Notable' and the Man of Law

Published
ELH 40 (1973): 165-78..

Description
Argues that PhyT was designed to critique the Man of Law, an extension of the ancient "feud between law and medicine." Explores this tradition in classical and medieval sources, and identifies ways that Chaucer evoked it through adjustments to Livy and Jean de Meun, his sources for PhyT.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations