Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote / / Susan Byrne.

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• VerfasserIn: Byrne, Susan ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
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Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes' seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era - those of law and history - into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes' sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Cervantes' Quixotic mos hispanicus -- 1. History, Jurisprudence, and the Creation of the Novel -- 2. Giovio, Baeza, History, and Law in Cervantes' Works -- 3. Jurisprudence in Spain, Seventh to Sixteenth Centuries -- 4. Laws Broken, Glossed, and Made: Don Quixote -- 5. Laws Broken, Glossed, and Made: Sancho Panza et al. -- 6. History and Historiography in the Quixote -- 7. Cervantes' mos hispanicus: Considerations and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index