A Crisis of TruthIn the late fourteenth century the complex Middle English word trouthe, which had earlier meant something like integrity or dependability, began to take on its modern sense of conformity to fact. At the same time, the meaning of its antonym, tresoun, began to move from personal betrayal to a crime against the state. In A Crisis of Truth, Richard Firth Green contends that these alterations in meaning were closely linked to a growing emphasis on the