A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England by Richard Firth Green
A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England

Richard Firth Green

A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England

Richard Firth Green

512 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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In the late fourteenth century the complex Middle English word "trouthe," which had earlier meant something like "integrity" or "dependability," began to take on its modern sense of "conformity to fact." At the same time, the meaning of its antony...

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