@article {Stanbury:2010-04-01T00:00:00:1041-2573:119,
	author = "Stanbury, Sarah",
	title = "The <i xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Man of Law's Tale</i> and Rome",
	journal = "Exemplaria",
	volume = "22",
	number = "2",
	year = "2010-04-01T00:00:00",
	abstract = "This essay examines Rome and materialism in Chaucer's <i xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Man of Law's Tale</i>. Opening with a reflection on place/thing associations in American modernist poetry, especially Eliot's "Prufrock," this essay argues that the tale locates Rome in a world of both Mediterranean trade as well as devotional commerce to critique image-based devotion, offering Custance as a foil to "dead" images. From the outset the tale associates Rome with commerce&#8212;or place and things&#8212;as it draws on a reformist tradition that condemned Rome for the traffic in indulgences and relics. Writing at the time of the papal schism, Chaucer concludes the tale with a picture of Rome, as in the <i xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/">Second Nun's Tale</i>, as a renewed papal home.",
	pages = "119-137",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/exm/2010/00000022/00000002/art00003",
	doi = "doi:10.1179/104125710X12670926012030",
	keyword = "CHAUCER, "LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK", DEVOTIONAL IMAGES, MAN OF LAW'S TALE, ROME, MERCHANTS, INDULGENCES"
}