Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game.

Author / Editor
Giancarlo, Matthew.

Title
Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 26-42.

Description
Introduces the kinds of courts with which Chaucer would have been acquainted, organized into sections on house and law and one on game that end with readings of FrT and SNT. Discusses the range of courtly depictions, cataloguing "some of the Chaucerian moments of trial which . . . help us to understand how his writings often connected these interrelated ideas of court.”

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Friar and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale