Interpretation and meaning in the Renaissance : the case of law / Ian Maclean.
1992
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Author
Title
Interpretation and meaning in the Renaissance : the case of law / Ian Maclean.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Call Number
K290 .M33 1992
ISBN
0521415462
Description
xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24009271
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the presentation of the text
Introduction
1
1
Contexts
12
The study of Roman law in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
13
Law and its status in the universities
19
Legal texts: genres, production, presentation, distribution
30
Justinian's prohibition of commentary and its interpretation
50
The defence of legal pedagogy
59
2
Interpretation and the arts course
67
Grammar
70
Logic and dialectics
72
Topics and rhetoric
75
Interpretation in theology and medicine
82
The development of legal pedagogy
83
3
Theories of interpretation and meaning
87
The self-evident text
89
Authority and interpretation
91
Signification, reference, evidence and its interpretation
95
The method
103
Definition, etymology, division
104
Modes of interpretation: declarative, extensive, restrictive
114
Words and things: propriety, ambiguity, usage
125
Cavillation: interpretation in bad faith
135
Legal fictions
138
Literal, subjective and objective meaning: verba, mens legislatoris and ratio legis
142
Illocutionary and perlocutionary force: performatives
158
Nonlinguisitc interpretation: custom and equity
171
4
Parallels and examples
179
Suarez
179
England
181
Semantics and the law of slander
186
Conclusion
203
Bibliography of primary sources
215
Index of citations from the Corpus Furis Civilis
226
Index of names
229
Index of terms
236