Religious Elements in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."

Author / Editor
Yunck, John A.

Title
Religious Elements in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."

Published
ELH 27 (1960): 249-61.

Description
Compares Chaucer's heroine in MLT with her predecessor in Trevet, arguing that Custance's passivity, her prayers, and her divinely-aided escape from the "renegade knight" combine with other religious features of the tale to make it "a romantic homily on the virtues of complete submission to divine providence, worked out against the harshest vicissitudes which folktale could provide."

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