Fler böcker inom

Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 424
Utgivningsdatum: 2013-04-26
Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
Dimensioner: 226 x 150 x 25 mm
Vikt
ISBN: 9780226061542

Power to Do Justice

Name: Power to Do Justice
Price: 333.00 SEK
Availability: InStock
Author: Bradin Cormack
ISBN: 9780226061542

Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law

av Bradin Cormack

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-04-26

333

Köp

Spara som favorit

Skickas från oss inom 5-8 vardagar.
Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.

Finns även som

E-bok (LCP)

Ladda ned och läs i Bokus Reader.

726
Inbunden

Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar (specialorder)

1385

Visa alla 2 format & utgåvor

English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century in response to the Reformation and the growing power of the legal profession. In "A Power to Do Justice", Bradin Cormack argues that jurisdictional encounters and crises made visible the law's resemblance to the literary arts, and that Renaissance writers engaged with the concept of jurisdiction to reflect both on the nature of law and on their own imaginative practice. Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, Cormack shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power.

Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Sunrise on the Reaping av Suzanne Collins (inbunden).

Köp båda 2 för 582 kr

Shakespeare and the Law

Bradin Cormack, Martha C Nussbaum, Richard Strier

William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, phi...

263

Köp

Skickas inom vardagar.