Dark Speech : : The Performance of Law in Early Ireland / / Robin Chapman Stacey.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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