The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property.

Author / Editor
Schiff, Randy P.

Title
The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property.

Published
Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, eds. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 82-103.

Description
Argues that the narrator's comments on poachers and governesses in PhyT are not digressive, but part of a broader "biopolitical" concern that "clearly condemns the parental absolutism that leads to Virginius's murder of his daughter" and aptly cultivates "a politics of life" as an alternative to the traditional "thanatopolitical status quo" of legalistic authority.

Contributor
Schiff, Randy P., ed.
Taylor, Joseph, ed.

Alternative Title
The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale