The Cultural Otherness of Custance as a Foreign Woman in the "Man of Law's Tale."

Author / Editor
Hamaguchi, Keiko.

Title
The Cultural Otherness of Custance as a Foreign Woman in the "Man of Law's Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 54.4 (2019): 411-40.

Description
Contrasts Chaucer's version of Custance in MLT with that of Gower and Trevet in order to show how Chaucer emphasizes the foreignness of Custance in England and the negative reaction to her, comparing them with documentary instances of xenophobia toward foreign women in late fourteenth-century England.

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