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A Crisis of Truth - Literature and Law in Ricardian England (Paperback)
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A Crisis of Truth - Literature and Law in Ricardian England (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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In the late fourteenth century the complex Middle English word
"trouthe," which had earlier meant something like "integrity" or
"dependability," began to take on its modern sense of "conformity
to fact." At the same time, the meaning of its antonym, "tresoun,"
began to move from "personal betrayal" to "a crime against the
state." In A Crisis of Truth, Richard Firth Green contends that
these alterations in meaning were closely linked to a growing
emphasis on the written over the spoken and to the simultaneous
reshaping of legal thought and practice. According to Green, the
rapid spread of vernacular literacy in the England of Richard II
was driven in large part by the bureaucratic and legal demands of
an increasingly authoritarian central government. The change
brought with it a fundamental shift toward the attitudes we still
hold about the nature of evidence and proof-a move from a truth
that resides almost exclusively in people to one that relies
heavily on documents. Green's magisterial study presents law and
literature as two parallel discourses that have, at times,
converged and influenced each other. Ranging deeply and widely over
a huge body of legal and literary materials, from Anglo-Saxon
England to twentieth-century Africa, it will provide a rich source
of information for literary, legal, and historical scholars.
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