Foxes, Fables, and Felons: Animals before the Law in the Middle Ages.

Author / Editor
Chamberlin, Julie K.

Title
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