Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England

Andreea D. Boboc, Ph.D. (2006), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is Associate Professor of English at the Univesity of the Pacific. She has published articles on Chaucer, Gower, medieval drama, medieval law and literature, and pedagogy.

Contents
Acknowledgments vii
List of Figures viii
List of Contributors ix
1 Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England 1
Andreea Boboc
2 Royal Personhood and The Owl and the Nightingale 29
Jana Mathews
3 Carried Away by the Law: Chaucer and the Poetry of Abduction 50
Eve Salisbury
4 John Gower’s Poetry and the ‘Lawyerly Habit of Mind’ 71
R.F. Yeager
5 The Spectral Advocate in John Gower’s Trentham Manuscript 94
Candace Barrington
6 Vengeance and the Legal Person: John Gower’s Tale of Orestes 119
Conrad van Dijk
7 Impossible Piety 142
Valerie Allen
8 Controlling Human Behaviour? The Last Judgment in Late Medieval
Art and Architecture 166
Anthony Musson
9 Legal Personhood and the Inquisitions of Insanity in Thomas
Hoccleve’s Series 192
Helen Hickey
10 Of Adam’s Rib, Cannibalism, and the Construction of Otherness
through Natural Law 218
Toy-Fung Tung
11 Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth: Conscience and Coercion
in Reformation England 244
Andrew Hope
12 Animal Rights, Legal Agency, and Cultural Difference in The
Testament of the Buck 270
Jamie Taylor
Index 291