Captain Obvious, Here to Save the Day
The narrator of "The Man of Law's Tale" is definitely a medieval lawyer. How do we know? Let's see...
- All the fancy shmancy language he uses could've come straight from the legal manuals of the day.
- When he attacks the Sultanness as "Sowdanesse, roote of iniquitee! / Virage, thou Semyrame the secounde!" he might be prosecuting her in a court of law.
- He also sounds a lot like a lawyer when he declares Custance's great virtue and states the case of how unfair all her suffering is. During these sections it almost sounds like he's trying to convince a jury of her innocence.
So, unlike some of the other Canterbury Tales, there seems to be a strong connection between this particular tale and its teller. Lucky us.