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Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World Linda Metcalf the Negro spiritual as theThis coursebook is the first full length study of cinematic "legal medievalism," or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular culture For more than a century, filmmakers have used the "Middle Ages" to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the twenty chapters in Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World represents an original contribution to our understanding of how medieval regulations,