A crisis of truth : literature and law in Ricardian England / Richard Firth Green

BOOKS

Green, Richard Firth, 1943-

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.

 

 

 

Items

LOCATION	Call No.	Status
Main Collection	820.9 G7971c	AVAILABLE

Details

Description	xvi, 496 p. ; 25 cm.
Series	The Middle Ages series Middle Ages series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-473) and index.
Subject Headings	English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. Law and literature -- History -- To 1500. Law, Medieval, in literature. Truth in literature. Law -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- History -- Richard II, 1377-1399.

trouþe, Middle English noun -- a promise, an assertion about reality.  "Have here my trouþe."  Cf. ModE "troth" and "truth."