Chaucer and the Law
- Author / Editor
- Hornsby, Joseph Allen.
Chaucer and the Law
- Published
- Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1988.
- Physical Description
- 180 pp.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's legal background, his connection with English canon law of agreements, the secular law of agreements, and medieval English criminal law and procedure.
- Treats the appeal of felony in WBT and MLT; bill procedure in ABC, Pity, ParsT, and PhyT; treason and litigation in TC; commercial instruments in ShT; covenant for debt in FranT and WBT; dower and conveyance of property in MerT; agreement in GP; "ernest" in FrT; homage and fealty in BD and TC; "hue and cry" in MilT, NPT, and WBT; intention in FranT and FrT; loans in ShT; mainprise in Mel and WBT;;
- marriage agreements in FranT and MerT; marriage debt in MerT, ShT, and WBP; ordeal in TC; pledge of faith in FranT, FrT, KnT, SumT, WBT, and TC; rape in RvT and WBT; releases in FranT; tally in ShT; treason in LGW, MLT, MerT, ParsT, BD, PF, Mel, and TC; and murder in PrT, NPT, PardT, and ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.