Lex Scripta et Lex Non Scripta: Tensions Between Law and Language in Late Fourteenth-Century England and Its Literature
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Susanne Sara.
Lex Scripta et Lex Non Scripta: Tensions Between Law and Language in Late Fourteenth-Century England and Its Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2645A.
- Description
- Examines how Chaucer and the Gawain poet explore the legal power of written and spoken words. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" challenges the potency of oral oaths, WBT parodies courtroom rhetoric, the GP sketch of the Sergeant of Law exposes legal subversion of land law, PardPT abuse and fetishize texts, and CYPT depicts the fearful prospect that texts are empty and language inauthentic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.