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Title Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Medieval Law and Its Practice ; 18
Medieval law and its practice ; 18.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval england / Andreea Bohac -- Royal personhood and the owl and nightingale / Jana Matthews -- Carried away by the law : Chaucer and the poetry of abduction / Eve Salisbury -- John Gower's poetry and the 'lawyerly habit of mind' / R.F. Yeager -- The spectral advocate in John Gower's Trentham manuscript / Candace Barrington -- Vengeance and the legal person : John Gower's Tale of Orestes / Conrad van Dijk -- Impossible piety / Valerie Allen -- Controlling human behaviour? the last judgment in late medieval art and architecture / Anthony Musson -- Legal personhood and the inquisitions of insanity in Thomas Hoccleve's series / Helen Hickey -- Of Adam's rib, cannibalism, and the construction of otherness through natural law / Toy-Fung Tung -- Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth : conscience and coercion in reformation England / Andrew Hope -- Animal rights, legal agency, and cultural difference in the testament of the buck / Jamie Taylor.
Summary Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England' is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, these essays draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations, which, in turn, enable them to make real contributions to our understanding of the workings of a specific literary text or to our grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, or of Eurocentrism.
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Subject Law -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Law.
England.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Personality (Law) -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Personality (Law)
Law and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Law and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Law.
Added Author Boboc, Andreea, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England 9789004280410 (DLC) 2015020184 (OCoLC)900685655
ISBN 9789004284647 (electronic book)
9004284648 (electronic book)
9789004280410
9004280413