The letter of the law : legal practice and literary production in medieval England / edited by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steiner, Emily.

Boyd, Beverly, 1925-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Practice of law--England--History--To 1500.

Practice of law.

Law and literature--History--To 1500.

Law and literature.

Law--England--History--To 1500.

Law.

Law in literature.

Law, Medieval.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.

Contents:

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

Appendix 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 / Translated by Andrew Galloway 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801439752

0801487706

OCLC:

48140651