The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

by Elise Wang

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192870726
• ISBN13: 9780192870728
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.6"