| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-386) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Centralization. "Shewe us your mynde then": bureaucracy and royal privilege in Skelton's Magnyfycence -- "No more to medle of the matter": Thomas More, equity, and the claims of jurisdiction -- pt. 2. Rationalization. Inconveniencing the Irish: custom, allegory, and the common law in Spenser's Ireland -- "If we be conquered": legal nationalism and the France of Shakespeare's English histories -- pt. 3. Formalization. "To stride a limit": imperium, crisis, and accommodation in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Pericles -- "To law for our children": norm and jurisdiction in Webster, Rowley, and Heywood's Cure for a Cuckold. |
| Summary |
English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common law engaged with other court systems in England, when it encountered territories like Ireland and France, or when it confronted the ocean as a juridical space, the law revealed its qualities of ingenuity and improvisation. In other words, as Bradin Cormack argues, jurisdictional crisis made visible. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cormack, Bradin. Power to do justice. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226116242 (DLC) 2007024210 (OCoLC)145379651 |
| ISBN |
9780226116259 (electronic book) |
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0226116255 (electronic book) |
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9780226116242 (alkaline paper) |
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0226116247 (alkaline paper) |
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