Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

by Alex Davis

Impossible bequests of the soul; an outlawed younger son who rises to become justice of the king's forests; the artificially-preserved corpse of the heir to an empire; a medieval clerk kept awake at night by fears of falling; a seventeenth-century noblewoman who commissions copies upon copies of her genealogy; Elizabethan efforts to eradicate Irish customs of succession; thoughts of the legacy of sin bequeathed to mankind by our first parents, Adam...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198851421
• ISBN13: 9780198851424
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"