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Autore |
Scase Wendy |
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Titolo |
Literature and complaint in England, 1272-1553 [[electronic resource] /] / Wendy Scase |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-16444-5 |
9786611164447 |
0-19-153378-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Law and literature - History - To 1500 |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 |
Complaints (Rhetoric) |
Law in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-204) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Judicial Plaint and Peasant Plaint; 2. Complaint, Clamour, and Libels; 3. The Literature of Clamour; 4. Transmission, Response, and Development: Clamour Writing 1460-1553; 5. Literature, Complaint, and the Ars Dictaminis; List of Abbreviations; List of Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book gives an entirely new and original perspective on the relations between early judicial process and the development of literature in England. Wendy Scase argues that texts ranging from political libels and pamphlets to laments of the unrequited lover constitute a literature shaped by the new and crucial role of complaint in the law courts. - ;Literature and Complaint in England 1272-1553 gives an entirely new and original perspective on the relations between early judicial process and the development of literature in England. Wendy Scase argues that texts ranging from political libels |
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