Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.
2015
KD606 .T448 2015 (Map It)
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Title
Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [ 2015]
Call Number
KD606 .T448 2015
ISBN
9789004280410 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004280413 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004284647 (e-book)
9004280413 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004284647 (e-book)
Description
xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)900685655
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, these essays 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, which, in turn, enable them to make real contributions to our understanding of the workings of a specific literary text or to our grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, or of Eurocentrism.
Note
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, these essays 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, which, in turn, enable them to make real contributions to our understanding of the workings of a specific literary text or to our grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, or of Eurocentrism.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
List of Figures
viii
List of Contributors
ix
1.
Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England / Andreea Boboc
1
2.
Royal Personhood and The Owl and the Nightingale / Jana Mathews
29
3.
Carried Away by the Law: Chaucer and the Poetry of Abduction / Eve Salisbury
50
4.
John Gower's Poetry and the `Lawyerly Habit of Mind' / R.F. Yeager
71
5.
The Spectral Advocate in John Gower's Trentham Manuscript / Candace Barrington
94
6.
Vengeance and the Legal Person: John Gower's Tale of Orestes / Conrad van Dijk
119
7.
Impossible Piety / Valerie Allen
142
8.
Controlling Human Behaviour? The Last Judgment in Late Medieval Art and Architecture / Anthony Musson
166
9.
Legal Personhood and the Inquisitions of Insanity in Thomas Hoccleve's Series / Helen Hickey
192
10.
Of Adam's Rib, Cannibalism, and the Construction of Otherness through Natural Law / Toy-Fung Tung
218
11.
Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth: Conscience and Coercion in Reformation England / Andrew Hope
244
12.
Animal Rights, Legal Agency, and Cultural Difference in The Testament of the Buck / Jamie Taylor
270
Index
291