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14 - Lancastrian Literature

from Part II - Literary Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

By
Sebastian Sobecki
Edited by
Candace Barrington  and
Sebastian Sobecki
Candace Barrington
Affiliation:
Central Connecticut State University
Sebastian Sobecki
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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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. 178 - 187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print 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

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