The Oxford handbook of English law and literature, 1500-1700 / edited by Lorna Hutson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutson, Lorna, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--History--16th century.

Law.

Law--England--History--17th century.

Law in literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

English law and literature, 1500-1700

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.

Contents:

Forensic History: Henry V and Scotland / Lorna Hutson

Why Shylocke loses his case: Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice / Quentin Skinner

Corporate Persons, Between Law and Literature' / Henry Turner

Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the 1590s: John Davies' Epigrammes / Jessica Winston

Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England / Tim Stretton

The Literary Thing: The Imaginary Holding of Isabella Whitney's "Wyll" to London' / Carolyn Sale

Roman Law and the Law of Libel / David Ibbetson

Immunities and Monasticism: Bale to Shakespeare / Joshua Phillips

The Ecclesiastical Polity / Ethan Shagan

Epieikeia and Conscience / Alan Cromartie

Spenser, Plowden and the Hypallactic Instrument / Andrew Zurcher

Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV / Virginia Strain

The Monarchical Republic: Constitutionality and the Legal Profession / Paul Raffield

Contract / Luke Wilson

Law Enforcement and the Local Community / James Sharpe

Making Law and Recording It: John Selden on Excommunication / Jason Rosenblatt

The Changing Persona of the Justices and their Quarter Sessions / Norma Landau

The Legal Masque: Humanity and Liberty at the Inns of Court / Martin Butler

Law and the Evidentiary Environment / Barbara Shapiro

Witch Wives / Frances Dolan

Base Slavery and the Roman Yoke / Mary Nyquist

The Torture of John Felton, 1628 / Alastair Bellany

Birthright and the Due Course of Law / Paul Halliday

Seldenism / Elliott Visconsi

Common-Law Scholarship and the Written Word / Ian Williams

Law and Literature in Scotland, c.1450-1707 / Rab Houston

Henry V, Anachronism and the History of International Law / Christopher Warren

English Liberties Outside England: the Legal Architecture of Empire / Dan Hulsebosch

Empire and Natural Law in Dryden's Heroic Drama / Edward Holberton

From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman / Bernadette Meyler

Legal Agency as Literature in the English Revolution: The Case of the Levellers / Nigel Smith

Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth Century England: Milton's Aeropagitica / Joad Raymond

Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696 / Martin Dzelzainis

Paradise Lost? Law, Literature and History in Restoration England / Christopher Brooks

Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education / Kathy Eden

Introduction: Law, Literature and History / Lorna Hutson

Idiosyncratic Books and Common Learning: Readings on Statutes at the Inns of Court / Margaret McGlynn

Attentive Mindes and Serious Wits": Legal Training and Early Drama / James McBain

The Emblem Book and Common Law / Peter Goodrich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 8, 2017).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780191768200

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