Signifying Acts: Writing in the Middle English Romances
- Author / Editor
- Forste-Grupp, Sheryl L.
Signifying Acts: Writing in the Middle English Romances
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 674-75A.
- Description
- Analysis of legal documents and letters (especially treacherous or forged) in Middle English romances reveals that these fictions (including MLT) reflect popular attitudes of the 1300s and 1400s. Though speech had been preferred earlier, written documents came to be accepted as society became illiterate.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.