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A Power to Do Justice : Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law.
English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; Prologue: A Power to Do Justice; Introduction: Literature and Jurisdiction; Part 1: Centralization; 1 "Shewe Us Your Mynde Then": Bureaucracy and Royal Privilege in Skelton's Magnyfycence; 2 "No More to Medle of the Matter": Thomas More, Equity, and the Claims of Jurisdiction; Part 2 Rationalization; 3 Inconveniencing the Irish: Custom, Allegory, and the Common Law in Spenser's Ireland; 4 "If We Be Conquered": Legal Nationalism and the France of Shakespeare's English Histories; Part 3 Formalization.
- 5 "To Stride a Limit": Imperium, Crisis, and Accommodation in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Pericles6 "To Law for Our Children": Norm and Jurisdiction in Webster, Rowley, and Heywood's Cure for a Cuckold; Notes; Index.