The Legal Epic

Author : Alison A. Chapman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226435275

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The Legal Epic by Alison A. Chapman Pdf

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England’s history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history. Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton’s Paradise Lost sits at the apex of the early modern period’s long fascination with law and judicial processes. Milton’s world saw law and religion as linked disciplines and thought therefore that in different ways, both law and religion should reflect the will of God. Throughout Paradise Lost, Milton invites his readers to judge actions using not only reason and conscience but also core principles of early modern jurisprudence. Law thus informs Milton’s attempt to “justify the ways of God to men” and points readers toward the types of legal justice that should prevail on earth. Adding to the growing interest in the cultural history of law, The Legal Epic shows that England’s preeminent epic poem is also a sustained reflection on the role law plays in human society.

Author : Kathleen Manatt
Publisher : Cherry Lake Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1602790647

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Law and Order by Kathleen Manatt Pdf

All levels of our legal system are described, from the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court to local judges, courts, juries, and law enforcement agencies.

Author : Alison A. Chapman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226729329

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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries by Alison A. Chapman Pdf

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton’s many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light Milton’s use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time—natural versus positive law, for example—and the differences between them. Surveying Milton’s early pamphlets, divorce tracts, late political tracts, and major prose works in comparison with the writings and cases of some of Milton’s contemporaries—including George Herbert, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and John Bunyan—Chapman reveals the variety and nuance in Milton’s juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice.

Author : Linda Hirshman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328566447

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Reckoning by Linda Hirshman Pdf

The first history--incisive, witty, fascinating--of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal--when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus. And yet, legal, political, and cultural efforts, often spearheaded by women of color, were quietly paving the way for the takedown of abusers and harassers. Reckoning delivers the stirring tale of a movement catching fire as pioneering women in the media exposed the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, women flooded the political landscape, and the walls of male privilege finally began to crack. This is revelatory, essential social history.

Author : Garrett Epps
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199974740

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American Epic by Garrett Epps Pdf

"The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. . Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"--

Author : Vipul Maheshwari,Anil Maheshwari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9789389351071

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Ramayana Revisited by Vipul Maheshwari,Anil Maheshwari Pdf

Rama, Maryada Purushottam, the king of Ayodhya, banished his beloved queen, in whose chastity he had complete faith, simply because his subjects disapproved of his accepting a wife who had spent a year in the house of her abductor. The king submitted to the will of the people though it broke his heart. Was his stand justified? Could Manthara be held solely responsible for the banishment of Rama and the subsequent death of Dasharatha? Was Ahalya an adulteress or a victim of sexual assault? Did the actions of the serial molester Ravana stand legal scrutiny? Was Lakshmana, a prince of Ayodhya, legally justified in mutilating Surpanakha? Was his elder brother Rama an accomplice in that action? It was said in ancient India, a king who, after having sworn to safeguard his subjects, failed to protect should be executed like a mad dog. Such a provision indicated that sovereignty was based on an implied social contract, and if the king violated the traditional pact, he forfeited his kingship. So, a king had to be just as justice trickled down from the crown. What happens though if the events of yore are retold and characters made to stand trial in today's time? Here is an attempt, unexplored so far, to retell the significant happenings narrated in the Ramayana through the legal prism of the Indian Penal Code. Each chapter comprises a prosecution version, citations of relevant provisions from the IPC, deposition of witnesses and the defence argument. Ramayana Revisited succeeds in bringing in all alternative perspectives, leaving the final judgement to the discretion of the reader.

Author : Roy Shapira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186507

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Law and Reputation by Roy Shapira Pdf

The law shapes behavior not only by imposing sanctions, but also by producing information on how powerful entities behave.

Author : Keila V. Dawson
Publisher : Beaming Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781506468921

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Opening the Road by Keila V. Dawson Pdf

"Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation. In the first picture book about the creation and distribution of The Green Book, author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America.

Author : Nicholas McDowell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691241739

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Poet of Revolution by Nicholas McDowell Pdf

A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost—but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton’s best-known works from this period, including the “Nativity Ode,” “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and “Lycidas.” Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton’s astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.

Author : Björn Quiring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000289800

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Trials of Nature by Björn Quiring Pdf

Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In an enormous variety of texts, from the Greek beginnings of Western literature onward, nature has been described as a courtroom in which an all- encompassing trial takes place and a universal verdict is executed. The first, introductory part of this study sketches an overview of the metaphor’s development in European history, from antiquity to the seventeenth century. In its second, more extensive part, the book concentrates on Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in which the problem of the natural law court finds one of its most fascinating and detailed articulations. Using conceptual tools provided by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Hans Blumenberg, Gilles Deleuze, William Empson and Alfred North Whitehead, the study demonstrates that the conflicts in Milton’s epic revolve around the tension between a universal legal procedure inherent in nature and the positive legal decrees of the deity. The divine rule is found to consolidate itself by Nature’s supplementary shadow government; their inconsistencies are not flaws, but rather fundamental rhetorical assets, supporting a law that is inherently "double- formed". In Milton’s world, human beings are thus confronted with a twofold law that entraps them in its endlessly proliferating double binds, whether they obey or not. The analysis of this strange juridical structure can open up new perspectives on Milton’s epic, as well as on the way legal discourse tends to entangle norms with facts and thus to embed itself in human life. This original and intriguing book will appeal not only to those engaged in the study of Milton, but also to anyone interested in the relationship between law, history, literature and philosophy.

Author : American Oriental Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : IND:30000099735122

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Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society Pdf

List of members in each volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11543958

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Journal of the American Oriental Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520333550

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Medieval French Literature and Law by R. Howard Bloch Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Author : Mandyam Srinivasan,Theodore Stank,Philippe-Pierre Dornier,Kenneth Petersen
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071792325

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Global Supply Chains: Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework – Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence by Mandyam Srinivasan,Theodore Stank,Philippe-Pierre Dornier,Kenneth Petersen Pdf

A proven framework for measuring the supply chain potential of geographic regions Managing a complex global supply chain requires a strategic assessment of the various factors that can affect decisions on procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and sales. Co-written by renowned experts in global supply chain management, this book presents a systematic, structured approach to evaluating ten global regions with respect to their supply chain activities. The maturity level for each region is assessed using the EPIC framework--Economy, Politics, Infrastructure, and Competence. Managers of supply chains can use this framework and the exclusive data in this practical, timely resource to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the different global regions and determine their supply chain strategies accordingly. Global Supply Chains analyzes ten regions: East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia Australia The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Western Europe Central and Eastern Europe North and Central America South America

Author : Eva Steiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198790884

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French Law by Eva Steiner Pdf

This book provides an ideal introduction to the French legal system and its internal workings, replete with the latest case law and developments.