Among Other Possible Things: The Cosmopolitanisms of Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Legassie, Shayne Aaron.
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