The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Steiner, Emily, and Candace Barrington, eds.
The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y., and Londons : Cornell University Press, 2002.
- Physical Description
- x, 257 pp.
- Description
- Nine New Historicist essays by various authors, assessing the intersections of legal history and literature and addressing Robin Hood, the N-Town Trial play, The Owl and the Nightingale, alliterative poetry, Lollard preaching, and works by Chaucer, Gower, Henryson, and others. The appendix is Thomas Favent's account of the Merciless Parliament (1386), translated by Andrew Galloway. For the two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Letter of the Law under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Barrington, Candace, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.