Law and the 'Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
Baird, Joseph L.

Title
Law and the 'Reeve's Tale'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 679-83.

Description
Suggests that behind several legal maxims found in RvPT stands the broader principle of measuring one law by another: "the old by the new, the Continental by the English, the private by the public, the Mosaic by the Christian."

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale