Concepts of Sovereignty in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Martin, William Eugene.

Title
Concepts of Sovereignty in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
DAI 32.09 (1972): 5236A

Description
Approaches political, social, and marital sovereignty as prominent concerns of CT: the Host's authority in GP and elsewhere, Theseus as ideal sovereign in KnT in contrast with the tyrants of PhyT and MkT, Mel as an allegory of a ruler's moral psychology, the relations between marital and social sovereignty in the Marriage Group, and divine sovereignty in ParsT.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General