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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
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