Franklin's Tale
Franklin's Tale is a fictional narrative within Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales* that belongs to the genre of the Breton lai and is distinguished by its exploration of chivalric ideals, marital fidelity, and the philosophical problem of promise-keeping in the context of medieval courtly ethics.
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Vivian R. Pollak · American Literature · 2000 · 79 citations
The Promises in the Franklin's Tale
Alan T. Gaylord · ELH · 1964 · 62 citations
War by Other Means: Marriage and Chivalry in Chaucer
Anne Middleton · Studies in the age of Chaucer · 1984 · 51 citations
Dorigen's Lament and the Resolution of the Franklin's Tale
Warren S. Smith · The Chaucer Review · 2002 · 47 citations
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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, United States
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Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, United States
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University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
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University of California, Irvine
Irvine, United States
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1 publications
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Oakland University
Rochester, United States
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1 publications
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University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, United States
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University of Mississippi
Oxford, United States
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Radboud University Nijmegen
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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University of Houston
Houston, United States
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CRO · 7 publications · 182 citations
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