The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
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This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. For historians of early modern England, turning to legal archives and learning more about legal procedure has seemed increasingly relevant to the project of understanding familial and social relations as well as political institutions, state formation, and economic change.
Literary scholars and intellectual historians have also shown how classical forensic rhetoric formed the basis both of the humanist teaching of literary composition (poetry and drama) and of new legal epistemologies of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability.
This Handbook brings historians, literary scholars, and legal historians together to build on and challenge these and similar lines of inquiry. Chapters in the Handbook consider the following topics in a variety of combinations: forensic rhetoric, poetics and evidence; humanist and legal learning; political and professional identities at the Inns of Court; poetry, drama, and visual culture; local governance and legal reform; equity, conscience, and religious law; legal transformations of social and affective relations (property, marriage, witchcraft, contract, corporate personhood); authorial liability (libel, censorship, press regulation); rhetorics of liberty, slavery, torture, and due process; nation, sovereignty, and international law (the British archipelago, colonialism, empire).
Literary scholars and intellectual historians have also shown how classical forensic rhetoric formed the basis both of the humanist teaching of literary composition (poetry and drama) and of new legal epistemologies of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability.
This Handbook brings historians, literary scholars, and legal historians together to build on and challenge these and similar lines of inquiry. Chapters in the Handbook consider the following topics in a variety of combinations: forensic rhetoric, poetics and evidence; humanist and legal learning; political and professional identities at the Inns of Court; poetry, drama, and visual culture; local governance and legal reform; equity, conscience, and religious law; legal transformations of social and affective relations (property, marriage, witchcraft, contract, corporate personhood); authorial liability (libel, censorship, press regulation); rhetorics of liberty, slavery, torture, and due process; nation, sovereignty, and international law (the British archipelago, colonialism, empire).
This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literary interpretation to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.
- Introduction: Law, Literature and History
- Part I. Textual and Interpretative Culture
- 1: Kathy Eden: Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education
- 2: Margaret McGlynn: Idiosyncratic Books and Common Learning: Readings on Statutes at the Inns of Court'
- 3: Ian Williams: Common Law Scholarship and the Written Word
- 4: James McBain: 'Attentive Mindes and Serious Wits': Legal Training and Early Drama
- 5: Quentin Skinner: Why Shylocke Loses his Case: Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice
- Part II. Literature and the Legal Profession, 1500-1700
- 6: Jessica Winston: Legal Satire and the Legal Profession in the 1590s: John Davies' Epigrammes and Professional Decorum
- 7: Peter Goodrich: The Emblem Book and Common Law
- 8: Paul Raffield: The Monarchical Republic: Constitutionality and the Legal Profession
- 9: Martin Butler: The Legal Masque: Humanity and Liberty at the Inns of Court
- 10: Christopher Brooks: Paradise Lost? Law, Literature, and History in Restoration England
- Part III. Administering the Law
- 11: James Sharpe: Law Enforcement and the Local Community
- 12: Norma Landau: The Changing Persona of the Justices and their Quarter Sessions
- 13: Barbara Shapiro: Law and the Evidentiary Environment
- 14: Virginia Strain: Legal Reform and 2 Henry IV
- Part IV. Temporal and Spiritual, Law and Conscience
- 15: Joshua P. Phillips: Immunities and Monasticism: Bale to Shakespeare
- 16: Alan Cromartie: Epieikeia and Conscience
- 17: Ethan Shagan: The Ecclesiastical Polity
- 18: Jason Rosenblatt: Making Law and Recording It: John Selden on Excommunication
- 19: Elliott Visconsi: Seldenism
- Part V. Legal and Literary Imagining
- 20: Luke Wilson: Contract
- 21: Tim Stretton: Contract and Conjugality in Early Modern England
- 22: Carolyn Sale: The Literary Thing: The Imaginary Holding of Isabella Whitney's 'Wyll' to London, 1573
- 23: Frances Dolan: Witch Wives
- 24: Henry Turner: Corporate Persons, Between Law and Literature
- Part VI. Libel, Publication, and the Press
- 25: David Ibbetson: Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel
- 26: Joad Raymond: Censorship in Law and Practice in Seventeenth Century England: Milton's Aeropagitica
- 27: Martin Dzelzainis: Managing the Later Stuart Press, 1662-1696
- 28: Alastair Bellany: The Torture of John Felton, 1628
- Part VII. Liberties, Slaveries, and English Law
- 29: Bernadette Meyler: From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman
- 30: Paul Halliday: Birthrights and the Due Course of Law
- 31: Nigel Smith: Legal Agency as Literature in the English Revolut
This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literary interpretation to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England.