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Common Profit and Political Community in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls64 views
Author
McLaughlin, Mary, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Fowler, Elizabeth, University of Virginia
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.
McLaughlin, Mary. Common Profit and Political Community in Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls. University of Virginia, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA (Master of Arts), 2025-08-07, https://doi.org/10.18130/rqar-ax89.
