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  title info:
    title: Great trials and the law in the historical imagination
    sub title: a law and humanities approach
  name:
    name part: Dees, Russell L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 176 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach introduces readers to the history of law and issues in historical, legal and artistic interpretation by examining six well-known historical trials through works of art that portray them. Great Trials provides readers with an accessible, non-dogmatic introduction to the interdisciplinary 'law and humanities' approach to law, legal history and legal interpretation. By examining how six famous/notorious trials in Western history have been portrayed in six major works of art, the book shows how issues of legal, historical, and artistic interpretation can become intertwined, the different ways we embed law in narrative, how we bring conscious and subconscious conceptions of history to our interpretation of law and how aesthetic predilections and moral commitments to the law may influence our views of history. The book studies well-known depictions of the trials of Socrates, Cicero, Jesus, Thomas More, the Salem 'witches' and John Scopes and provides innovative analyses of those works. The epilogue examines how historical methodology and historical imagination are crucial to both our understanding of the law and our aesthetic choices through various readings of Harper Lee's beloved character, Atticus Finch. The first book to employ a 'law and humanities' approach to delve into the institution of the trial, and what it means in different legal systems at different historical times, this book will appeal to academics, students and others with interests in legal history, law and popular culture and law and the humanities.
  note: Russell L. Dees.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Law in literature
  subject:
    topic: Law and literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN56.L33 D44 2023
  classification: 809/.933554
  identifier: 9781032299952
  identifier: 1032299959
  identifier: 9781032299969
  identifier: 1032299967
  identifier: 9781003302971
  identifier: 2022005669
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220518
    record change date: 20221028201407.7
    record identifier: in00004598231