Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe / Rudolph M. Lapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lapp, Rudolph M., Author.

Contributor:

Kahn, Victoria Ann.

Hutson, Lorna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Language--History--Europe.

Law.

Law--History--Methodology--Europe.

Rhetoric--History--Europe.

Rhetoric.

Forensic oratory--History.

Forensic oratory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. The Promise and the Contract in Early Modern England: Slade's Case in Perspective

2. Classical Rhetoric and the English Law of Evidence

3. Archives in the Fiction: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron

4. Gay Science and Law

5. Bribery, Buggery, and the Fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon

6. Ben Jonson and the Law of Contract

7. Not the King's Two Bodies: Reading the "Body Politic" in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2

8. Law and Political Reference in Montaigne's "Apologie de Raimond Sebond"

9. Mens sine Affectu? Algernon Sidney's Ideal of Law

10. "The Duty to Love": Passion and Obligation in Early Modern Political Theory

11. Intellectual Property and the Adages of Erasmus: Coenobium v. Ercto non cito

12. "Race," Religion, and the Law: Rhetorics of Sameness and Difference in the Work of Hugo Grotius

13. Selden, Grotius, and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Revolution in Moral and Political Theory

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300145557

0300145551

OCLC:

861792891