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Sleeping dogs and stasis in the 'Franklin's Tale'

North, John R; (2017) Sleeping dogs and stasis in the 'Franklin's Tale'. In: Stasis in the Medieval World? Questioning Change and Continuity. Palgrave Macmillan Green open access

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Abstract

Questions the liberal reading of Arveragus' ethics in the 'Franklin's Tale' and argues instead that he and his narrator, the Franklin, are reactionaries in keeping with the marital mores of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century heyday of the Breton lai.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Sleeping dogs and stasis in the 'Franklin's Tale'
ISBN-13: 9781349950331
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Franklin's Tale, Arveragus and Dorigen, Chaucer and maistrie, Boccaccio and Il Filocolo, The Tale of Menedon.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472291
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