Rhetoric and law in early modern Europe / edited by Victoria Kahn and Lorna Hutson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahn, Victoria Ann.

Hutson, Lorna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Europe--Language--History.

Law.

Law--Europe--Methodology--History.

Rhetoric--Europe--History.

Rhetoric.

Forensic oratory--History.

Forensic oratory.

History.

Methodology.

Europe.

Physical Description:

ix, 355 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Rhetoric & law in early modern Europe

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2001]

Summary:

This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the relation of law and rhetoric in the early modern period in Europe. It brings together the work of eminent social and legal historians, literary scholars, and historians of rhetoric and of political theory.

The book provides a historical perspective on such issues as the role of contract law in the production of the modern subject, the intersection of rhetoric and law in the construction of gender and sexuality, and the contribution of theories of equity to early modern notions of intention and political agency. The contributors include Kathy Eden, Carla Freccero, Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Constance Jordan, Victoria Kahn, Jane O. Newman, Annabel Patterson, David Harris Sacks, Barbara J. Shapiro, Johann P. Sommerville, Alan Stewart, and Luke Wilson.

Contents:

The promise and the contract in early modern England: Slade's case in perspective / David Harris Sacks

Classical rhetoric and the English law of evidence / Barbara J. Shapiro

Archives in the fiction: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Carla Freccero

Gay science and law / Peter Goodrich

Bribery, buggery, and the fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon / Alan Stewart

Ben Jonson and the law of contract / Luke Wilson

Not the king's two bodies: reading the "body politic" in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts l and 2 / Lorna Hutson

Law and political reference in Montaigne's "Apologie de Raimond Sebond" / Constance Jordan

Mens sine affectu? Algernon Sidney's Ideal of law / Annabel Patterson

"The duty to love": passion and obligation in early modern political theory / Victoria Kahn

Intellectual property and the Adages of Erasmus: Coenobium v. Ercto non cito / Kathy Eden

"Race," religion , and the law: rhetorics of sameness and difference in the work of Hugo Grotius / Jane O. Newman

Selden, Grotius, and the seventeenth-century intellectual revolution in moral and political theory / Johann P. Sommerville.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300084854

0300088884

OCLC:

44764254