Answer the Following Questions:
1. Custance’s travels—with their resulting conversions—are clearly significant to the plot of
the Man of Law’s Tale. That the tale’s initial setting depicts events through the actions of
Syrian merchants also suggests a parallel and a contrast between Christians and
mercantile travel. What role does this parallel and the events of the poem suggest may be
a possibility for Christians (or perhaps Christian women in particular) in the post Crusades
global scene?
2. Events in the poem take place in three main locations: Rome, Syria, and England. Syria
and England are both geographically distant and displaced from Rome. How do these two
locations contrast? Are they othered in the same way? Given that Chaucer was a writer
composing in English to an English audience, what is he trying to say about England in
this text?
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