Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I Legal Contexts
- Part II Literary Texts
- 7 Treason
- 8 Complaint Literature
- 9 Political Literature and Political Law
- 10 William Langland
- 11 Geoffrey Chaucer
- 12 John Gower
- 13 Lollards and Religious Writings
- 14 Lancastrian Literature
- 15 Middle English Romance and Malory’s Morte Darthur
- 16 Marriage and the Legal Culture of Witnessing
- Index
- References
14 - Lancastrian Literature
from Part II - Literary Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2019
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I Legal Contexts
- Part II Literary Texts
- 7 Treason
- 8 Complaint Literature
- 9 Political Literature and Political Law
- 10 William Langland
- 11 Geoffrey Chaucer
- 12 John Gower
- 13 Lollards and Religious Writings
- 14 Lancastrian Literature
- 15 Middle English Romance and Malory’s Morte Darthur
- 16 Marriage and the Legal Culture of Witnessing
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter will provide an overview of how both major and lesser-known Lancastrian writers and texts engage with the law and legal contexts. Covering the period between Henry IV and Prince Edward of Westminster, this chapter will address legal aspects in Thomas Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes, Osbern of Bokenham’s Mappula Angliae, George Ashby’s Active Policy, John Fortescue’s De laudibus legum Angliae and such anonymous works as the Libelle of Englyshe Polycye in order to demonstrate how they intervened in and commented on shifting legal ideas and practices during the first two-thirds of the fifteenth century.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature , pp. 177 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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Further Reading
Giancarlo, Matthew, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
McGerr, Rosemarie, A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Nuttall, Jennifer, The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Scase, Wendy, Literature and Complaint in England, 1272–1553, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sobecki, Sebastian, Unwritten Verities: The Making of England’s Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Staley, Lynn, Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II, Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Strohm, Paul, England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399–1422, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998; repr. 2006.Google Scholar
Strohm, Paul, Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.Google Scholar