Scabs and Sovereignty in the "Franklin’s Tale."

Author / Editor
Rogers, Will.

Title
Scabs and Sovereignty in the "Franklin’s Tale."

Published
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 441-61.

Description
Traces the figure of the "sursanure" in FranT, demonstrating that this superficially healed wound is an apt metaphor for Chaucer/s soft or "sunken" sources.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Language and Word Studies