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: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801439759
Subjects: Law; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; c 1000 CE to c 1500; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; To 1500; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Medieval; England; Law and literature; English literature; Practice of law; Legal History; History; History and criticism; Middle English, 1100-1500
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