Fictions of the Island: Girdling the Sea.

Author / Editor
Staley, Lynn.

Title
Fictions of the Island: Girdling the Sea.

Published
Postmedieval 7 (2016): 539-50.

Description
Contrasts Custance of MLT with her source in Trevet's "Cronicles," exploring the depictions of the sea in the two poems as well, arguing that women and water are tamed by "providential control" in Chaucer, especially when seen in light of Alatiel of Boccaccio's "Decameron" and of the "desire to domesticate the sea" in Lydgate's "Mumming for the Mercers of London."

Alternative Title
Postmedieval 07 (2016)

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations