Poetic Properties: Legal Forms and Literary Documents in Early English Literature
This thesis argues that the Middle English alliterative prosody of the Piers Plowman tradition was influenced by a discourse combining law, history, homily and poetry which was inherited from the administrative practices of the Anglo-Saxon period. As literary and legal textual genres developed recog...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32962 |