Literature and law in the era of Magna Carta /
Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta traces processes of literary training and experimentation across the early history of the English common law, from its beginnings in the reign of Henry II to its tumultuous consolidations under the reigns of John and Henry III. The period from the mid-twe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- The grammar of sacrifice : Thomas Becket, learning, and libertas
- Classroom historicisms : interdict and the poetria nova
- Inventing Magna Carta
- Jurisdictional formalism : Robert Grosseteste and the pastoral model of governance
- Conjuring England : crusade, violence, and communitas.