The Letter of the Law
Subtitle: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England
Contributors: Emily Steiner (Editor); Candace Barrington (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801487705
Subjects: Law; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Practice of law; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; England; Law and literature; Europe - Great Britain - General; Medieval; English literature; Middle English, 1100-1500; To 1500; Legal History; History
First sentence: The earliest Robin Hood ballads are marauders at a peculiar intersection: the place where the reinvention of social order merges with the administration of justice.1