Chaucer and the Just Society: Conceptions of Natural Law and the Nobility in the 'Parliament of Fowls', the 'Knight's Tale,' and the Portraits of the Miller and Reeve
- Author / Editor
- Cowgill, Bruce Kent.
Chaucer and the Just Society: Conceptions of Natural Law and the Nobility in the 'Parliament of Fowls', the 'Knight's Tale,' and the Portraits of the Miller and Reeve
- Published
- DAI 31.10 (1971): 5357A.
- Description
- Reads PF in light of its sources as an allegory of aristocratic responsibility for maintaining natural law and a just society; KnT as an exploration of lawlessness set against the background of Status's "Thebaid," focusing on the tournament; and the GP descriptions of the Miller and Reeve as satiric "caricatures of erring nobility."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Knight and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale