| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 355 pages) |
| Contents |
The promise and the contract in early modern England: Slade's case in perspective / David Harris Sacks -- Classical rhetoric and the English law of evidence / Barbara J. Shapiro -- Archives in the fiction: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Carla Freccero -- Gay science and law / Peter Goodrich -- Bribery, buggery, and the fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon / Alan Stewart -- Ben Jonson and the law of contract / Luke Wilson -- Not the king's two bodies: reading the "body politic" in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts l and 2 / Lorna Hutson -- Law and political reference in Montaigne's "Apologie de Raimond Sebond" / Constance Jordan -- Mens sine affectu? Algernon Sidney's Ideal of law / Annabel Patterson -- "The duty to love": passion and obligation in early modern political theory / Victoria Kahn -- Intellectual property and the Adages of Erasmus: Coenobium v. Ercto non cito / Kathy Eden -- "Race," religion, and the law: rhetorics of sameness and difference in the work of Hugo Grotius / Jane O. Newman -- Selden, Grotius, and the seventeenth-century intellectual revolution in moral and political theory / Johann P. Sommerville |
| Summary |
"The book provides a historical perspective on such issues as the role of contract law in the production of the modern subject, the intersection of rhetoric and law in the construction of gender and sexuality, and the contribution of theories of equity to early modern notions of intention and political agency. The essays also shed light on the influence of legal decisions on early modern values in public and private life, on notions of literary fiction, and on ideas about the social contract."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Europe -- Language -- History
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Law -- Europe -- Methodology -- History
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Rhetoric -- Europe -- History
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Forensic oratory -- History
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LAW -- Legal Writing.
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Forensic oratory
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Law -- Language
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Law -- Methodology
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Rhetoric
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Rhetorik
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Juristische Methodik
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Recht
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kahn, Victoria Ann, editor
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Hutson, Lorna, editor
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| ISBN |
9780300145557 |
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0300145551 |
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