Objects of the Law: The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor.
Objects of the Law: The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia.
- Published
- Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 201-28.
- Description
- Discusses Chaucer's thematic thread of accessibility of legal rights to women in FranT and PhyT. Dorigen, in FranT, and Virginia, in PhyT, are women trapped as objects of medieval law, or as properties whose control or outright ownership is the subject of dispute between men. Focuses on the contractual restrictions placed on women and the patriarchal lens through which women are objectified.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Women and Their Objects
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Physician and His Tale