Piers Plowman and the reinvention of church law in the late Middle Ages
Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas argues that the poem's mobilization of juridical concepts not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by m...
| Résumé: | Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas argues that the poem's mobilization of juridical concepts not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contritio Cordis: The Laughter of Mede and Tearlessness of Contricion -- 2 Dreams of Avarice: The Absent Presence of the Usury Prohibition -- 3 Restitutio: From Rule to Law to Justice in Covetise's Confession -- 4 Satisfactio Operis: Maxim and Metaphor in Wrong's Trial -- 5 Contritio Cordis, Confessio Oris, et Satisfactio Operis: From Symbol to Sign in Patience's Sermon -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1487515383 |