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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stacey, Robin Chapman (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:The Middle Ages Series
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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