Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Jones, Timothy S.

Title
Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description
xiv, 221 pp.

Series
The New Middle Ages.

Description
Studies the depiction and reception of historical and literary outlaws in England from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, focusing on how borders of various sorts--legal, ethnic, political, social, and religious--define the outlaw identity. Jones comments on Palamon and Arcite as outlaws in KnT and on use of the term "outlawe" in ManT.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale
Knight and His Tale
Language and Word Studies