Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boboc, Andreea.

Series:

Medieval Law and Its Practice 18.

Medieval law and its practice ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--History--To 1500.

Law.

Personality (Law)--England--History--To 1500.

Personality (Law).

Law and literature--England--History--To 1500.

Law and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, the essays in this volume draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations. These essays contribute new insights into the workings of specific literary texts and provide us with a better grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, and of Eurocentrism. Contributors are Valerie Allen, Candace Barrington, Conrad van Dijk, Toy Fung Tung, Helen Hickey, Andrew Hope, Jana Mathews, Anthony Musson, Eve Salisbury, Jamie Taylor and R.F. Yeager.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Andreea D. Boboc

Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England / Andreea Boboc

Royal Personhood and The Owl and the Nightingale / Jana Mathews

Carried Away by the Law: Chaucer and the Poetry of Abduction / Eve Salisbury

John Gower’s Poetry and the ‘Lawyerly Habit of Mind’ / R.F. Yeager

The Spectral Advocate in John Gower’s Trentham Manuscript / Candace Barrington

Vengeance and the Legal Person: John Gower’s Tale of Orestes / Conrad van Dijk

Impossible Piety / Valerie Allen

Controlling Human Behaviour? The Last Judgment in Late Medieval Art and Architecture / Anthony Musson

Legal Personhood and the Inquisitions of Insanity in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series / Helen Hickey

Of Adam’s Rib, Cannibalism, and the Construction of Otherness through Natural Law / Toy-Fung Tung

Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth: Conscience and Coercion in Reformation England / Andrew Hope

Animal Rights, Legal Agency, and Cultural Difference in The Testament of the Buck / Jamie Taylor

Index / Andreea D. Boboc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-28464-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004284647 DOI