The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature

Herausgeber: Barrington, Candace; Sobecki, Sebastian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Companion provides an introduction to the relationship between law and literature in medieval England. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of literature, history and culture in the Anglo-Saxon, medieval and Tudor periods. Scholars will also appreciate the surveys and discussions of literary uses of legal motifs.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781316632345
• ISBN-10: 1316632342
• Artikelnr.: 55320303

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Legal Contexts: 1. English law before the conquest Stefan Jurasinski
2. Languages and law in late medieval England: English, French and Latin Gwilym Dodd
3. Canon and civil law Peter D. Clarke
4. Custom and common law Paul Raffield
5. Magna Carta and statutory law Anthony Musson
6. Treatises, tracts, and compilations Don C. Skemer
Part II. Literary Texts: 7. Treason Neil Cartlidge
8. Complaint literature Wendy Scase
9. Political literature and political law Andy Galloway
10. William Langland Emily Steiner
11. Geoffrey Chaucer Candace Barrington
12. John Gower R. F. Yeager
13. Lollards and religious writings Fiona Somerset
14. Lancastrian literature Sebastian Sobecki
15. Middle English romance and Malory's Le Morte Darthur Corinne Saunders
16. Marriage and the legal culture of witnessing Emma Lipton.