The Oxford handbook of English law and literature, 1500-1700 /
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 tho...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education / Kathy Eden
- Idiosyncratic Books and Common Learning: Readings on Statutes at the Inns of Court / Margaret McGlynn
- Common Law Scholarship and the Written Word / Ian Williams
- "Attentive Mindes and Serious Wits" : Legal Training and Early Drama / James McBain
- Why Shylocke Loses His Case : Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice / Quentin Skinner
- Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the 1590s : John Davies's Epigrammes and Professional Decorum / Jessica Winston
- Emblem Book and Common Law / Peter Goodrich
- Monarchical Republic, Constitutionality, and the Legal Profession / Paul Raffield
- Legal Masque : Humanity and Liberty at the Inns of Court / Martin Butler
- Paradise Lost? : Law, Literature, and History in Restoration England / Christopher Brooks
- Law Enforcement and the Local Community / James Sharpe
- Changing Persona of the Justices and their Quarter Sessions / Norma Landau
- Law and the Evidentiary Environment / Barbara J. Shapiro
- Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV / Virginia Lee Strain
- Immunities and Monasticism : Bale to Shakespeare / Joshua Phillips
- Epieikeia and Conscience / Alan Cromartie
- Ecclesiastical Polity / Ethan H. Shagan
- Making Law and Recording It : John Selden on Excommunication / Jason P. Rosenblatt
- Seldenism / Elliott Visconsi
- Contract / Luke Wilson
- Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England / Tim Stretton
- Literary Thing : The Imaginary Holding of Isabella Whitney's "Wyll" to London (1573) / Carolyn Sale
- Witch Wives / Frances E. Dolan
- Corporate Persons, between Law and Literature / Henry S. Turner
- Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel / David Ibbetson
- Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century England : Milton's Areopagitica / Joad Raymond
- Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696 / Martin Dzelzainis
- Torture of John Felton, 1628 / Alastair Bellany
- From Sovereignty to the State : The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman / Bernadette Meyler
- Birthrights and the Due Course of Law / Paul D. Halliday
- Legal Agency as Literature in the English Revolution : The Case of the Levellers / Nigel Smith
- Base Slavery and Roman Yoke / Mary Nyquist
- Spenser, Plowden, and the Hypallactic Instrument / Andrew Zurcher
- Law and Literature in Scotland, c. 1450-1707 / Robert A. Houston
- Forensic History : Henry V and Scotland / Lorna Hutson
- Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law / Christopher N. Warren
- Empire and Natural Law in Dryden's Heroic Drama / Edward Holberton
- English Liberties outside England : Floors, Doors, Windows, and Ceilings in the Legal Architecture of Empire / Daniel J. Hulsebosch.