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‘AND IN HIR CHAMBRE PRIVELY’: THE HOUSEHOLD CONTOURS OF RETRIBUTION IN GENIUS'S TALES ‘AND IN HIR CHAMBRE PRIVELY’: THE HOUSEHOLD CONTOURS OF RETRIBUTION IN GENIUS'S TALES
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Mundus and Paulina Mundus and Paulina
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The tale of Constance The tale of Constance
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The False Bachelor and the chamber The False Bachelor and the chamber
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The False Bachelor and the community of worship The False Bachelor and the community of worship
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The Place of the Law: Unofficial and Official Justice in Livery and Maintenance Petitions The Place of the Law: Unofficial and Official Justice in Livery and Maintenance Petitions
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Writing and law Writing and law
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The livery ordinance of 1390 The livery ordinance of 1390
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THE UNWRITTEN COMMUNITY OF WORSHIP: UNOFFICIAL AND OFFICIAL JUSTICE IN GENIUS'S TALES THE UNWRITTEN COMMUNITY OF WORSHIP: UNOFFICIAL AND OFFICIAL JUSTICE IN GENIUS'S TALES
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Tarquin, Arruns, and Brutus Tarquin, Arruns, and Brutus
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Virginius Virginius
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The rise and fall of the False Bachelor The rise and fall of the False Bachelor
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‘THE WREECHE WHICH HORESTES DEDE’: AN EPITOME OF UNOFFICIAL RETRIBUTION ‘THE WREECHE WHICH HORESTES DEDE’: AN EPITOME OF UNOFFICIAL RETRIBUTION
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7 7 Retribution as Household Exchange in Genius's Tales
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Published:May 2008
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Abstract
This chapter expands the previous chapter's discussion of attitudes to law and justice by investigating the politics of uncentralized, household-based dispute resolution in the tales of Confessio Amantis. There is discussion of writing as a technology of justice, and a livery ordinance of 1390 that is invested in the king's law offers a counterpoint to parliamentary livery complaint and Gower's poem. The chapter argues that Gower's tales promote a distinctly unofficial model of justice rooted in the great household but regulated by oppositions between public and private, lordship and ‘prive’ revenge, hall and chamber. There are extended treatments of the tales of Tereus, Mundus and Paulina, Constance, the False Bachelor, Tarquin and Aruns, Lucrece, Virginius, and Orestes.
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