Chaucer's View of Knowledge: A Study of Ambiguity in 'The Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Johnson, William Clark.

Title
Chaucer's View of Knowledge: A Study of Ambiguity in 'The Man of Law's Tale'

Published
DAI 33.01 (1972): 275A.

Description
Outlines the "kinds of ambiguities in Chaucer's verbal and narrative technique" based in his commitment to epistemological "indeterminacy." Then examines MLT and its changes to its source in Nicholas Trevet to show that the "theme of the limitation of knowledge" is an overt theme of Chaucer's poem.

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