Among Other Possible Things: The Cosmopolitanisms of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Legassie, Shayne Aaron.

Title
Among Other Possible Things: The Cosmopolitanisms of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
John M. Ganim and Shayne Aaron Legassie, eds. Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 181-205.

Description
Compares cosmopolitanism in Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer's Constance legends. Establishes that Chaucer's sultan in MLT represents more of an aesthetic cosmopolitan than do his analogues in Trevet and Gower, who portray cosmopolitanism as a means of "advanc[ing] the universal expansion of orthodox Christian belief." Suggests that Chaucer questioned the success of a cosmopolitan world.

Contributor
Ganim, John M., ed.

Alternative Title
Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages.

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