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Taylor, Jamie K.

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Fictions of evidence: Witness testimony and late-medieval literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fictions of evidence: Witness testimony and late-medieval literature./
Author:	Taylor, Jamie K.
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Rita Copeland; Emily Steiner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Law. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3225553
ISBN:	9780542800283

Fictions of evidence: Witness testimony and late-medieval literature.
Taylor, Jamie K.

Fictions of evidence: Witness testimony and late-medieval literature. - 252 p.

Advisers: Rita Copeland; Emily Steiner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2006.

This dissertation demonstrates that witness testimony becomes a powerful literary topos for fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English writers. The witness functions in late-medieval literature as a nodal point for juridical, doctrinal and poetic practice that reveals developing understandings of intention (both legal and authorial), community and literacy. Specifically, this project explores how witness testimony allows us to re-think the divisions between "voice" and "text" that often govern how we read late-medieval literary and documentary production, as well as how a wide range of communities (devotional, political or linguistic) can be circumscribed by a representative witness. As such, the project broadly explores the relationship between history and allegory, examining how late-medieval authors understood their literary projects as both participating in and documenting historical events. By attending to the figure of the literary witness, we can trace the fate of medieval allegorical poetics into early modern England.

ISBN: 9780542800283Subjects--Topical Terms:

600858
Law.

Fictions of evidence: Witness testimony and late-medieval literature.
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520 $a My project performs two interventions in medieval criticism. First, it seeks to contextualize personification within fourteenth-century legal and doctrinal modes of proof. I argue that personification, an enormously familiar but little-investigated literary form, shifts under the pressures of changing historical and cultural ideals of "truth," functioning as a kind of probative method for medieval authors. Second, this project explores what is particularly literary about procedures of evidence, suggesting that late-medieval legal and doctrinal forms turn to personification as a persuasive model for both Latinate and vernacular audiences. I thus offer new insights into one of the most ubiquitous medieval poetic modes as well as into the well-rehearsed topics of medieval law and doctrine, arguing that we can enrich both of these discourses by situating them in relation to each other.
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