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Timothy Scott Jones.
Outlawry in Medieval Literature.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.
Series: The New Middle Ages.
Publication due: 19 January 2011.
Page count: 238.

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Hardback ISBN 9781403976161, £52.50

Description:

Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.

Contents:
Law and the Narrative of Outlawry; The Literature of Borders; Reading and Representing Transgression; The Exegesis of Outlawry in the Story of David; Outlawry and Romance.