Common Profit and Political Community in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Geoffrey Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls asks its narrator and its readers to weigh what one owes others and vice versa both in romance and in living in a political and social community. However, the dramatic and inconclusive nature of the poem makes those answers unclear. This thesis explores the stakes of this question with a look at historical and social contexts including medieval conceptions of natural law and the genre of courtly love.
Source: Libra
DOI: 10.18130/rqar-ax89
Author: Mary McLaughlin
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6925544459
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