Toward Premodern Globalism: Oceanic Exemplarity in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Jamie K.
Toward Premodern Globalism: Oceanic Exemplarity in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."
- Published
- PMLA 135, no. 2 (2020): 254-27.
- Description
- Argues MLT does not ultimately offer (English) land and (Christian) civilization as images of stability or "legal fixity" but the sea and Constance's paleness as images of an "exemplary fluidity," emphasizing that the tale is about "global ethics" rather than "national or territorial" law.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale