Pleading, Pragmatism, and Permissible Hypocrisy : The 'Colours' of Legal Discourse in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Landman, James H.
Pleading, Pragmatism, and Permissible Hypocrisy : The 'Colours' of Legal Discourse in Late Medieval England
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 4: 139-70, 2001.
- Description
- Decried by detractors such as Gower and Langland, legal discourse was a way of bridging the growing gap between legal tradition and contemporary reality. Although it satirizes legal pragmatism, The "Tale of Beryn" reflects appreciation of such pragmatism, also evident in John Fortescue's "The Declaracion."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.