Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late Middle Ages /
"It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plo...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2019
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Contritio Cordis: The Laughter of Mede and Tearlessness of Contricion; 2 Dreams of Avarice: The Absent Presence of the Usury Prohibition; 3 Restitutio: From Rule to Law to Justice in Covetise's Confession; 4 Satisfactio Operis: Maxim and Metaphor in Wrong's Trial; 5 Contritio Cordis, Confessio Oris, et Satisfactio Operis: From Symbol to Sign in Patience's Sermon; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
