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Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale
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Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale Although the Man of Law's Tale comes fifth in the order of the Canterbury Tales in all but one manuscript, readers often detect something initiatory about this performance. The Host's astronomical calculation of date and time in the Introduction to the tale sounds like a "new beginning" to Derek Pearsall, and Cooper speculates that the Introduction, which implies that the story-telling has not yet begun, may once have stood at the head of all the tales, following the General Prologue. Cooper also finds that the lawyer's tale of Custance, the Christian missionary bride, "certainly makes a new start": after the ever more sexually active women of the first fragment comes the saintly Emperor's daughter ... [;] after the vagaries of Fortune and the frenzied human disorder of the preceding tales comes a story that insists throughout on the providential...
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