The Physician's 'Historial Thyng Notable' and the Man of Law
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
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