Ricardian 'Trouthe': A Legal Perspective

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
Ricardian 'Trouthe': A Legal Perspective

Published
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 179-202.

Description
Documents the medieval legal understanding of "trouthe" as an aspect of personal "oathworthiness" rather than of verifiability of facts; argues that this early sense obtains in MLT 2.630 even though it was fast becoming an archaic sense.

Alternative Title
Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Man of Law and His Tale.