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Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England /

Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England' is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boboc, Andreea (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Colección:Medieval law and its practice ; 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval england / Andreea Bohac
  • Royal personhood and the owl and nightingale / Jana Matthews
  • Carried away by the law : Chaucer and the poetry of abduction / Eve Salisbury
  • John Gower's poetry and the 'lawyerly habit of mind' / R.F. Yeager
  • The spectral advocate in John Gower's Trentham manuscript / Candace Barrington
  • Vengeance and the legal person : John Gower's Tale of Orestes / Conrad van Dijk
  • Impossible piety / Valerie Allen
  • Controlling human behaviour? the last judgment in late medieval art and architecture / Anthony Musson
  • Legal personhood and the inquisitions of insanity in Thomas Hoccleve's series / Helen Hickey
  • Of Adam's rib, cannibalism, and the construction of otherness through natural law / Toy-Fung Tung
  • Thomas More and Humphrey Monmouth : conscience and coercion in reformation England / Andrew Hope
  • Animal rights, legal agency, and cultural difference in the testament of the buck / Jamie Taylor.