The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Eleanor.
The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 426-39.
- Description
- Discusses the "the rise and coalescence of trespass law, both as a theory of legal relationality and a practice of litigation." Traces the effect of trespass law on other forms of English law and demonstrates the effect of this law on poetry. Emphasizes TC and its relationship to Boccaccio's "Filostrato," highlighting how the former can be viewed through the evolution of English law.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde