Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.

• Superior document: Medieval law and its practice ; v. 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Boboc, Andreea.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)

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-sixteenth centuries, the essays in this volume draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations. These essays contribute new insights into the workings of specific literary texts and provide us with a better grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, and of Eurocentrism. Contributors are Valerie Allen, Candace Barrington, Conrad van Dijk, Toy Fung Tung, Helen Hickey, Andrew Hope, Jana Mathews, Anthony Musson, Eve Salisbury, Jamie Taylor and R.F. Yeager.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Andreea D. Boboc -- Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England / Andreea Boboc -- Royal Personhood and The Owl and the Nightingale / Jana Mathews -- 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 -- Index / Andreea D. Boboc.