Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval england / Andreea Bohac -- Royal personhood and the owl and nightingale / Jana Matthews -- Carried away by the law : Chaucer and the poetry of abduction / Eve Salisbury -- John Gower's poetry and the 'lawyerly habit of mind' / R.F. Yeager -- The spectral advocate in John Gower's Trentham manuscript / Candace Barrington -- Vengeance and the legal person : John Gower's Tale of Orestes / Conrad van Dijk -- Impossible piety / Valerie Allen -- Controlling human behaviour? The last judgment in late medieval art and architecture / Anthony Musson -- Legal personhood and the inquisitions of insanity in Thomas Hoccleve's series / Helen Hickey -- Of Adam's rib, cannibalism, and the construction of otherness through natural law / Toy-Fung Tung -- Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth : conscience and coercion in reformation England / Andrew Hope -- Animal rights, legal agency, and cultural difference in the testament of the buck / Jamie Taylor.