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.

• ContentsAcknowledgments viiList of Figures viiiList of Contributors ix1 Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England 1Andreea Boboc2 Royal Personhood and The Owl and the Nightingale 29Jana Mathews3 Carried Away by the Law: Chaucer and the Poetry of Abduction 50Eve Salisbury4 John Gower’s Poetry and the ‘Lawyerly Habit of Mind’ 71R.F. Yeager5 The Spectral Advocate in John Gower’s Trentham Manuscript 94Candace Barrington6 Vengeance and the Legal Person: John Gower’s Tale of Orestes 119Conrad van Dijk7 Impossible Piety 142Valerie Allen8 Controlling Human Behaviour? The Last Judgment in Late MedievalArt and Architecture 166Anthony Musson9 Legal Personhood and the Inquisitions of Insanity in ThomasHoccleve’s Series 192Helen Hickey10 Of Adam’s Rib, Cannibalism, and the Construction of Othernessthrough Natural Law 218Toy-Fung Tung11 Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth: Conscience and Coercionin Reformation England 244Andrew Hope12 Animal Rights, Legal Agency, and Cultural Difference in TheTestament of the Buck 270Jamie TaylorIndex 291