The letter of the law : legal practice and literary production in medieval England / edited by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.
2002
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Title
The letter of the law : legal practice and literary production in medieval England / edited by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Call Number
PR275.L35 L47 2002
ISBN
0801439752 (cloth)
0801487706 (pbk.)
0801487706 (pbk.)
Description
viii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)48140651
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Emily Steiner Candace Barrington
1
1
Robin Hood: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally in the Fifteenth-Century Ballads / Christine Chism
12
2
Land, Lepers, and the Law in The Testament of Cresseid / Jana Mathews
40
3
The Literature of 1388 and the Politics of Pity in Gower's Confessio amantis / Andrew Galloway
67
4
Palamon's Appeal of Treason in the Knight's Tale / Richard Firth Green
105
5
Language on Trial: Performing the Law in the N-Town Trial Play / Emma Lipton
115
6
"Acquiteth yow now": Textual Contradiction and Legal Discourse in the Man of Law's Introduction / Maura Nolan
136
7
Vernacular Legality: The English Jurisdictions of The Owl and the Nightingale / Bruce Holsinger
154
8
Inventing Legality: Documentary Culture and Lollard Preaching / Emily Steiner
185
9
The Generation of 1399 / Frank Grady
202
App
History or Narration Concerning the Manner and Form of the Miraculous Parliament at Westminster in the Year 1386, in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second after the Conquest, Declared by Thomas Favent, Clerk
231
Index
253