Foxes, Fables, and Felons: Animals before the Law in the Middle Ages.
- Author / Editor
- Chamberlin, Julie K.
Foxes, Fables, and Felons: Animals before the Law in the Middle Ages.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstract International A80.11 (2019): n.p
- Description
- Argues "that medieval writers of beast literature probed the limitations and possibilities of defining legal personhood, thus exposing the boundary between humans and nonhuman animals to be not merely blurry, but permeable." Includes discussion of NPT, investigating "issues of vocal legal authority following the 1381 Uprising in England."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale