Chaucer and Becket's Mother: "The Man of Law's Tale," Conversion, and Race in the Middle Ages.
- Author / Editor
- Pagés, Meriem.
Chaucer and Becket's Mother: "The Man of Law's Tale," Conversion, and Race in the Middle Ages.
- Published
- Leeds: Arc Humanities, 2023.
- Physical Description
- xx, 106 pp.; 5 illus.
- Series
- Medieval Media and Culture
- Description
- Contrasts MLT with "The King of Tars," "Bevis of Hampton," and the Becket legend (where Thomas Becket's mother is a "heathen or Saracen"), arguing that, unlike the "contradictory approaches . . . to the conversion of the Muslim Other elsewhere, MLT "simply rejects the missionary ideal personified in Custance," "accentuates late medieval English anxieties about conversion and the Other," and "proudly endorses its renunciation of missionary objectives."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations