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Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta (Hardcover)
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Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and
Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of
medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not
only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in
literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political,
jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and
the history of science but also that combines these subjects
productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may
include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history;
languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the
post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance;
music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the
literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of
gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of
aesthetics; medievalism. l Literature and Law in the Era of Magna
Carta traces processes of literary training and experimentation
across the early history of the English common law, from its
beginnings in the reign of Henry II to its tumultuous
consolidations under the reigns of John and Henry III. The period
from the mid-twelfth through the thirteenth centuries witnessed an
outpouring of innovative legal writing in England, from Magna Carta
to the scores of statute books that preserved its provisions. An
era of civil war and imperial fracture, it also proved a time of
intensive self-definition, as communities both lay and ecclesiastic
used law to articulate collective identities. Literature and Law in
the Era of Magna Carta uncovers the role that grammatical and
rhetorical training played in shaping these arguments for legal
self-definition. Beginning with the life of Archbishop Thomas
Becket, the book interweaves the histories of literary pedagogy and
English law, showing how foundational lessons in poetics helped
generate both a language and theory of corporate autonomy. In this
book, Geoffrey of Vinsauf's phenomenally popular Latin
compositional handbook, the Poetria nova, finds its place against
the diplomatic backdrop of the English Interdict, while Robert
Grosseteste's Anglo-French devotional poem, the Chateau d'Amour, is
situated within the landscape of property law and Jewish-Christian
interactions. Exploring a shared vocabulary across legal and
grammatical fields, this book argues that poetic habits of thought
proved central to constructing the narratives that medieval law
tells about itself and that later scholars tell about the origins
of English constitutionalism.
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