Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of English law and literature, 1500-1700 /
"This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the p...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire"--Jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 801 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780199660889 0199660883 |
| Index Number: | PR428 |
| CLC: | I561.06-62 |
| Call Number: | I561.06-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education / Idiosyncratic Books and Common Learning: Readings on Statutes at the Inns of Court / Common Law Scholarship and the Written Word / "Attentive Mindes and Serious Wits" : Legal Training and Early Drama / Why Shylocke Loses His Case : Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice / Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the 1590s : John Davies's Epigrammes and Professional Decorum / Emblem Book and Common Law / Monarchical Republic, Constitutionality, and the Legal Profession / Legal Masque : Humanity and Liberty at the Inns of Court / Paradise Lost? : Law, Literature, and History in Restoration England / Law Enforcement and the Local Community / Changing Persona of the Justices and their Quarter Sessions / Law and the Evidentiary Environment / Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV / Immunities and Monasticism : Bale to Shakespeare / Epieikeia and Conscience / Ecclesiastical Polity / Making Law and Recording It : John Selden on Excommunication / Seldenism / Contract / Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England / Literary Thing : The Imaginary Holding of Isabella Whitney's "Wyll" to London (1573) / Witch Wives / Corporate Persons, between Law and Literature / Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel / Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century England : Milton's Areopagitica / Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696 / Torture of John Felton, 1628 / From Sovereignty to the State : The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman / Birthrights and the Due Course of Law / Legal Agency as Literature in the English Revolution : The Case of the Levellers / Base Slavery and Roman Yoke / Spenser, Plowden, and the Hypallactic Instrument / Law and Literature in Scotland, c. 1450-1707 / Forensic History : Henry V and Scotland / Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law / Empire and Natural Law in Dryden's Heroic Drama / English Liberties outside England : Floors, Doors, Windows, and Ceilings in the Legal Architecture of Empire / |