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Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Despite an unprecedented level of interest in the interaction
between law and literature over the past two decades, readers have
had no accessible introduction to this rich engagement in medieval
and early Tudor England. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval
English Law and Literature addresses this need by combining an
authoritative guide through the bewildering maze of medieval law
with concise examples illustrating how the law infiltrated literary
texts during this period. Foundational chapters written by leading
specialists in legal history prepare readers to be guided by noted
literary scholars through unexpected conversations with the law
found in numerous medieval texts, including major works by Chaucer,
Langland, Gower, and Malory. Part I contains detailed introductions
to legal concepts, practices and institutions in medieval England,
and Part II covers medieval texts and authors whose verse and prose
can be understood as engaging with the law.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New
Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and
his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their
intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore
the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each
SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of
Chaucer-related publications.
Despite an unprecedented level of interest in the interaction
between law and literature over the past two decades, readers have
had no accessible introduction to this rich engagement in medieval
and early Tudor England. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval
English Law and Literature addresses this need by combining an
authoritative guide through the bewildering maze of medieval law
with concise examples illustrating how the law infiltrated literary
texts during this period. Foundational chapters written by leading
specialists in legal history prepare readers to be guided by noted
literary scholars through unexpected conversations with the law
found in numerous medieval texts, including major works by Chaucer,
Langland, Gower, and Malory. Part I contains detailed introductions
to legal concepts, practices and institutions in medieval England,
and Part II covers medieval texts and authors whose verse and prose
can be understood as engaging with the law.
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive
volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays
written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less
well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of
supporting bibliographies organized by type of voyage. This
anthology presents some texts for the first time in a modern
edition. The first section consists of six companion essays on
'Places, Real and Imagined', 'Maps and the Organization of Space',
'Encounters', 'Codes and Languages', 'Trade and Exchange', and
'Politics and Diplomacy'. The organizing principle for the
anthology is one of expansive geography. Starting with local
English narratives, the section moves to France, en-route
destinations, the Holy Land, and the Far East. In total, the
anthology contains twenty-six texts or extracts, including new
editions of Floris & Blancheflour, The Stacions of Rome, The
Libelle of Englyshe Polycye, and Chaucers 'Squire's Tale', in
addition to less familiar texts, such as Osbern Bokenham's Mappula
Angliae, John Kay's Siege of Rhodes, 1480, and Richard Torkington's
Diaries of Englysshe Travell. The supporting bibliographies, in
turn, take a functional approach to travel, and support the texts
by elucidating contexts for travel and travellers in five areas:
'commercial voyages', 'diplomatic and military travel', 'maps,
rutters, and charts', 'practical needs, languages, and currencies',
and 'religious voyages'.
In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal
Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by
English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its
association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual
government, generated a vernacular legal culture on the eve of the
Reformation that challenged the centralizing ambitions of Tudor
monarchs, the scriptural literalism of ardent Protestants, and the
Latinity of English humanists. Sobecki identifies the widespread
dissemination of legal books and William Caxton's printing of the
Statutes of Henry VII as crucial events in the creation of a
vernacular legal culture. He reveals the impact of medieval
concepts of language, governance, and unwritten authority on such
sixteenth-century humanists, reformers, playwrights, and legal
writers as John Rastell, Thomas Elyot, Christopher St. German,
Edmund Dudley, John Heywood, and Thomas Starkey. Unwritten Verities
argues that three significant developments contributed to the
emergence of a vernacular legal culture in fifteenth-century
England: medieval literary theories of translation, a Lancastrian
legacy of conciliar government, and an adherence to unwritten
tradition. This vernacular legal culture, in turn, challenged the
textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation in
the following century. Ultimately, the spread of vernacular law
books found a response in the popular rebellions of 1549, at the
helm of which often stood petitioners trained in legal writing.
Informed by new developments in medieval literature and early
modern social history, Unwritten Verities sheds new light on law
printing, John Fortescue's constitutional thought, ideas of the
commonwealth, and the role of French in medieval and Tudor England.
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