Revel, Reiving, and Outlawry: Regulating the Body Politic in Late Medieval Popular Literature.

Author / Editor
Ruether-Wu, Marybeth.

Title
Revel, Reiving, and Outlawry: Regulating the Body Politic in Late Medieval Popular Literature.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.02 (2017): n.p.

Description
Discusses Chaucer and Langland in this study of outlawry, suggesting that the sovereign ban may be interpreted as a Galenic purgation of imbalance in the body politic.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism