Teaching Legal Fictions: Law and "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Braswell, Mary Flowers.

Title
Teaching Legal Fictions: Law and "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Austin Sarat, Cathrine O. Frank, and Matthew Anderson, eds. Teaching Law and Literature (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 155-61.

Description
Offers a pedagogical unit in which advanced students explore similarities between CT (especially GP) and manor court records, capitalizing on Chaucer's familiarity with legal proceedings. Suggests that the "manor court seems to have influenced Chaucer's narrative structure" more than did Boccaccio's "Decameron" or Sercambi's "Novelle."

Contributor
Austin Sarat, ed.
Cathrine O. Frank, ed.
Matthew Anderson, ed.

Alternative Title
Teaching Law and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life