Constance's Covering Her Child's Eyes in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' 837f
- Author / Editor
- Brunt, Andrew
Constance's Covering Her Child's Eyes in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' 837f
- Published
- Notes and Queries 214 (1969): 87-88.
- Description
- Regards the detail of covering the child's eyes in MLT 2.840-41 as a "homely touch" of pathos, perhaps drawn from child-care advice found in Bartholomaeus Anglicus, "De Proprietatibus Rerum."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations