Law And Empire In English Renaissance Literature

Author : Brian C. Lockey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139458573

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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature by Brian C. Lockey Pdf

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism. Brian Lockey analyses works by such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney in the light of these legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as those interested in the history of law as the British Empire emerged, will learn much from this insightful and ambitious study.

Author : Brian Lockey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 051124682X

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Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature by Brian Lockey Pdf

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. In this insightful and ambitious study, Brian Lockey analyses how such authors as Shakespeare, Spenser and Sidney helped develop new legal discourses, and uncovers new contexts for the genre of romance.

Author : Virginia Lee Strain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474416306

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Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature by Virginia Lee Strain Pdf

This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', the 'Gesta Grayorum', Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Winter's Tale', Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works. Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.

Author : Stephanie Elsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605849

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Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature by Stephanie Elsky Pdf

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England's constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purported existence since 'time immemorial', furnished it with a unique and paradoxical capacity—to make new and foreign forms familiar. This volume shows that during a time when novelty was suspect, even insurrectionary, appeals to the widespread understanding of custom as a legal concept justified a startling array of fictive experiments. This is the first book to reveal fully the relationship between Renaissance literature and legal custom. It shows how writers were able to reimagine moments of historical and cultural rupture as continuity by appealing to the powerful belief that English legal custom persisted in the face of conquests by foreign powers. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature thus challenges scholarly narratives in which Renaissance art breaks with a past it looks back upon longingly and instead argues that the period viewed its literature as imbued with the aura of the past. In this way, through experiments in rhetoric and form, literature unfolds the processes whereby custom gains its formidable and flexible political power. Custom, a key concept of legal and constitutionalist thought, shaped sixteenth-century literature, while this literature, in turn, transformed custom into an evocative mythopoetic.

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0649441257

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English Law and the Renaissance, with Some Notes by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1267 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405187626

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A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michael Hattaway Pdf

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’ texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191081989

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The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson Pdf

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 thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics, and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire.

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066093884

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English Law and the Renaissance by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

This lecture was delivered at Cambridge University as a Rede's lecture in 1901 discussing English law during the Renaissance. English historian and lawyer Frederic William Maitland, in this lecture, describes the age as was the period of the Reformation, the age of the Renaissance, but more importantly, it was also the age of 'Reception' -the reception of Roman law. During this time, Roman law drove German law out of Germany or forced it to limit itself in subtle forms and hidden corners. The "Sir Robert Rede's Lecturer" is an annual arrangement to give a public lecture at the University of Cambridge. It is named on Sir Robert Rede, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.

Author : Donald Beecher,Travis DeCook,Andrew Wallace,Grant Williams
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442642010

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Taking Exception to the Law by Donald Beecher,Travis DeCook,Andrew Wallace,Grant Williams Pdf

Author : Stewart James Mottram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843841821

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Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature by Stewart James Mottram Pdf

Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.

Author : Christopher N. Warren
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191030055

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Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 by Christopher N. Warren Pdf

Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680 is a literary history of international law in the age of Shakespeare, Milton, Grotius, and Hobbes. Seeking to revise the ways scholars understand early modern English literature in relation to the history of international law, it argues that scholars of law and literature have tacitly accepted specious but politically consequential assumptions about whether international law is "real" law. Literature and the Law of Nations shows how major writers of the English Renaissance deployed genres like epic, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and history to solidify the canonical subjects and objects of modern international law. By demonstrating how Renaissance literary genres informed modern categories like public international law, private international law, international legal personality, and human rights, the book over its seven chapters and conclusion helps early modern literary scholars think anew about the legal entailments of genre and scholars in law and literature long accustomed to treating all law with a single broad brush better confront the distinct complexities, fault lines, and variegated histories at the heart of international law.

Author : Derek Dunne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137572875

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Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law by Derek Dunne Pdf

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0649447700

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English Law and the Renaissance (the Rede Lecture for 1901); With Some Notes by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Law
ISBN : LCCN:85008120

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English Law and the Renaissance by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

Author : Frederic Maitland
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497949629

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English Law and the Renaissance by Frederic Maitland Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.