Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treacher

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In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "construc