This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal
history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary
framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early
modern English literature and history have increasingly found that
an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used
the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social
relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution
and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has
been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and
drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation.
In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the
common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between
private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly,
historians, critics, and legal historians come together in this
Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the
legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical
archive. They also contribute to a transformation of our
understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the
creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook
approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including
forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court
revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce,
witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence,
community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship,
authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation
state, colonialism, and empire.
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