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The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and
Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes-this begins a list
of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'. In this study
Mark Fortier addresses the concept of equity from early in the
sixteenth century until 1660, drawing on the work of lawyers,
jurists, politicians, kings and parliamentarians, theologians and
divines, poets, dramatists, colonists and imperialists, radicals,
royalists, and those who argue on gender issues. He examines how
writers in all these groups make use of the word equity and its
attendant notions. Equity, he argues, is a powerful concept in the
period; he analyses how notions of equity play a prominent part in
discourses that have or seek to have influence on major social
conflicts and issues in early modern England. Fortier here maps the
actual and extensive presence of equity in the intellectual life of
early modern England. In so doing, he reveals how equity itself
acts as an umbrella term for a wide array of ideas, which defeats
any attempt to limit narrowly the meaning of the term. He argues
instead that there is in early modern England a distinct and
striking culture of equity characterized and strengthened by the
diversity of its genealogy and its applications. This culture
manifests itself, inter alia, in the following major ways: as a
basic component, grounded in the old and new testaments, of a model
for Christian society; as the justification for a justice system
over and above the common law; as an imperative for royal
prerogative; as a free ranging subject for poetry and drama; as a
nascent grounding for broadly cast social justice; as a rallying
cry for revolution and individual rights and freedoms. Working from
an empirical account of the many meanings of equity over time, the
author moves from a historical understanding of equity to a
theorization of equity in its multiplicity. A profoundly literary
study, this book also touches on matters of legal an
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