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The letter of the law : legal practice and literary production in medieval England / edited by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.
- Title
- The letter of the law : legal practice and literary production in medieval England / edited by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR275.L35 L47 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 257 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Robin Hood: thinking globally, acting locally in the fifteenth-century ballads -- Land, lepers, and the law in The testament of Cresseid -- The literature of 1388 and the politics of pity in Gower's Confessio amantis -- Palamon's appeal of treason in the Knight's tale -- Language on trial: performing the law in the N-town trial play -- "Acquiteth yow now": textual contradiction and legal discourse in the Man of Law's introduction -- Vernacular legality: the English jurisdictions of The Owl and the Nightingale -- Inventing legality: documentary culture and lollard preaching -- The generation of 1399 -- 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.
- ISBN
- 0801439752 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801487706 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001006097
- OCLC
- 48140651
- SCSB-10332225
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library