Theorizing legal personhood in late medieval England / / edited by Andreea D. Boboc.
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 centu...
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| Superior document: | Medieval law and its practice ; v. 18 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval Law and Its Practice
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
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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.