Ricardian 'Trouthe': A Legal Perspective
- Author / Editor
- Green, Richard Firth.
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.