The Mirror of Justice : Literary Reflections of Legal Crises /

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This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ziolkowski, Theodore (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Legal stories > History and criticism.
Literature > History and criticism.
LAW / Legal History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO.The Birth of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Ambivalence toward Pagan Law
  • CHAPTER FOUR.The Role of Rome
  • CHAPTER FIVE.The Disenchantment with Customary Law
  • CHAPTER SIX.The Reception of Roman Law in Germany
  • CHAPTER SEVEN .European Variations
  • CHAPTER EIGHT.Law and Equity I
  • CHAPTER NINE.Law and Equity II
  • CHAPTER TEN.The Attractions of Codification
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN.The Modern Crisis of Law
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Twentieth-Century Legal Evolutions
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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