THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE - "Termes Queinte of Lawe" and Quaint Fantasies of Literature -- The Man of Law's "Queinte Termes" and the Romance of Nomos -- The Wife of Bath's "Queinte Fantasye" of Lawe -- Law's Fantasies and Literature's Cunning -- CHAPTER TWO - Public Affairs and Juridical Intimacies -- Courts of Love and Romance Novels -- Lafayette's La Princess de Clèves (1678) -- French Romance and the English Novel -- Aphra Behn: French Romancier or English Novelist? -- CHAPTER THREE - Black Letters and Black Rams Law, Gender, and the Novel in Early Eighteenth-Century England -- Riding Backward: Women and Law -- Mere Entertainment and Serious Matter -- Rivella: Novel, Memoir, or Romance? -- Rivella: A "lady who could so well give laws to others, yet was not obliged to keep them her self" -- "Questions of Virtue and Questions of Truth" -- CHAPTER FOUR - How to Tell a Story That Might Prevent a Hanging -- A Public Romance -- Questions of Truth: A Judicial Romance -- Questions of Virtue: Or, a "sound and sober" narrative -- A Sentimental Romance -- CHAPTER FIVE - Statues, Statutes, and Queens on Trial -- A Queen on a Black Ram -- Henry VIII, or All Is True: The Queen's Conscience -- The Winter's Tale: The Queen's Body -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW.