The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 June 2017
- ISBN 9780199660889
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages826 pages
- Size 252x178x50 mm
- Weight 1622 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 Illustrations 0
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Short description:
This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literary interpretation to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.
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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. For historians of early modern England, turning to legal archives and learning more about legal procedure has seemed increasingly relevant to the project of understanding familial and social relations as well as political institutions, state formation, and economic change.
Literary scholars and intellectual historians have also shown how classical forensic rhetoric formed the basis both of the humanist teaching of literary composition (poetry and drama) and of new legal epistemologies 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.
This Handbook brings historians, literary scholars, and legal historians together to build on and challenge these and similar lines of inquiry. Chapters in the Handbook consider the following topics in a variety of combinations: forensic rhetoric, poetics and evidence; humanist and legal learning; political and professional identities at the Inns of Court; poetry, drama, and visual culture; local governance and legal reform; equity, conscience, and religious law; legal transformations of social and affective relations (property, marriage, witchcraft, contract, corporate personhood); authorial liability (libel, censorship, press regulation); rhetorics of liberty, slavery, torture, and due process; nation, sovereignty, and international law (the British archipelago, colonialism, empire).
The contributions to this collection are consistently outstanding
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Law, Literature and History
Part I. Textual and Interpretative Culture
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
Part II. Literature and the Legal Profession, 1500-1700
Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the 1590s: John Davies' Epigrammes and Professional Decorum
The Emblem Book and Common Law
The Monarchical Republic: Constitutionality and the Legal Profession
The Legal Masque: Humanity and Liberty at the Inns of Court
Paradise Lost? Law, Literature, and History in Restoration England
Part III. Administering the Law
Law Enforcement and the Local Community
The Changing Persona of the Justices and their Quarter Sessions
Law and the Evidentiary Environment
Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV
Part IV. Temporal and Spiritual, Law and Conscience
Immunities and Monasticism: Bale to Shakespeare
Epieikeia and Conscience
The Ecclesiastical Polity
Making Law and Recording It: John Selden on Excommunication
Seldenism
Part V. Legal and Literary Imagining
Contract
Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England
The Literary Thing: The Imaginary Holding of Isabella Whitney's 'Wyll' to London, 1573
Witch Wives
Corporate Persons, Between Law and Literature
Part VI. Libel, Publication, and the Press
Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel
Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth Century England: Milton's Aeropagitica
Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696
The Torture of John Felton, 1628
Part VII. Liberties, Slaveries, and English Law
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 the Roman Yoke
Part VIII. The Extra-English Legal World: Between Colony, Nation, and Empire
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
