Dark Speech : The Performance of Law in Early Ireland /
What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between p...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | The Middle Ages Series
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Play's the Thing
- 2. Jurists on Stage
- 3. The Power of the Word
- 4. Voicing Over
- 5. Voices Within the Law
- Conclusion: The Dangers of Performance
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments