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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature

Author : Brian C. Lockey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458574
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature written by Brian C. Lockey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.

Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature

Author : Brian C. Lockey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521858618
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature written by Brian C. Lockey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.

Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature

Author : Virginia Lee Strain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474416306
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature written by Virginia Lee Strain and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', the 'Gesta Grayorum', Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Winter's Tale', Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works. Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature

Author : Stephanie Elsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192605844
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature written by Stephanie Elsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England's constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purported existence since 'time immemorial', furnished it with a unique and paradoxical capacity—to make new and foreign forms familiar. This volume shows that during a time when novelty was suspect, even insurrectionary, appeals to the widespread understanding of custom as a legal concept justified a startling array of fictive experiments. This is the first book to reveal fully the relationship between Renaissance literature and legal custom. It shows how writers were able to reimagine moments of historical and cultural rupture as continuity by appealing to the powerful belief that English legal custom persisted in the face of conquests by foreign powers. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature thus challenges scholarly narratives in which Renaissance art breaks with a past it looks back upon longingly and instead argues that the period viewed its literature as imbued with the aura of the past. In this way, through experiments in rhetoric and form, literature unfolds the processes whereby custom gains its formidable and flexible political power. Custom, a key concept of legal and constitutionalist thought, shaped sixteenth-century literature, while this literature, in turn, transformed custom into an evocative mythopoetic.

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199660883
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 written by Lorna Hutson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes 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. Accordingly, historians, critics and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive.They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire"--Book jacket.

English Law and the Renaissance, with Some Notes

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780649441259
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book English Law and the Renaissance, with Some Notes written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Law and the Renaissance

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book English Law and the Renaissance written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081981
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by : Lorna Hutson

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 written by Lorna Hutson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes 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. Accordingly, historians, critics, and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire.

A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518762X
Total Pages : 1267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture written by Michael Hattaway and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’ texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

Taking Exception to the Law

Author : Donald Beecher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442642017
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Taking Exception to the Law written by Donald Beecher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Law and the Renaissance

Author : Frederic Maitland
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497949621
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book English Law and the Renaissance written by Frederic Maitland and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

English Law and the Renaissance (the Rede Lecture for 1901); With Some Notes

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780649447701
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book English Law and the Renaissance (the Rede Lecture for 1901); With Some Notes written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law

Author : Derek Dunne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137572876
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law written by Derek Dunne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

English Law and the Renaissance

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book English Law and the Renaissance written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680

Author : Christopher N. Warren
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191030058
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 written by Christopher N. Warren and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law in the age of Shakespeare, Milton, Grotius, and Hobbes. Seeking to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of international law, it argues that scholars of law and literature have tacitly accepted specious but politically consequential assumptions about whether international law is "real" law. Literature and the Law of Nations shows how major writers of the English Renaissance deployed genres like epic, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and history to solidify the canonical subjects and objects of modern international law. By demonstrating how Renaissance literary genres informed modern categories like public international law, private international law, international legal personality, and human rights, the book over its seven chapters and conclusion helps early modern literary scholars think anew about the legal entailments of genre and scholars in law and literature long accustomed to treating all law with a single broad brush better confront the distinct complexities, fault lines, and variegated histories at the heart of international law.

Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature

Author : Stewart James Mottram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843841827
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature written by Stewart James Mottram and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

English Law and the Renaissance

Author : Maitland Frederic William
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018280400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book English Law and the Renaissance written by Maitland Frederic William and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.