Used hardcover with jacket. Text pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket is worn and torn in three spots. An old price sticker from 1985 is on the inside front cover. Previous owner's name. View More...
For centuries, the transmission of power in feudal European society depended on a code of fidelity, of political allegiance, and truth to one's word. The word as bond extended to include not only the pledge of allegiance between subject and king, but the troth-plight between lovers, the vow of friendship, and the judicial oath. Society was ultimately based upon a gentleman's or gentlewoman's word that was itself underwritten by the Word of God.J. Douglas Canfield argues that English literature of the feudal epoch placed this master trope of word as bond at the center of conflict. The trope doe... View More...
Never read, no marks or highlighting in the text. Our copy is hardback, with a dust jacket, showing shelfwear and highlighting on fewer than 10 pages. From the library of a Chaucer scholar. View More...
Used book. Paperback. Corners curled, some wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. No highlighting or underlining. Original cover, 1972 reprint. View More...
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