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Law in the Courts of Love - Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences (Paperback)
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Law in the Courts of Love - Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences (Paperback)
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Law in the Courts of Love traces the literary history and diversity
of past legal systems. These 'minor jurisprudences' range from the
spiritual laws of the courts of conscience to the code and
judgements of love handed down by women's courts in medieval
France. Professor Goodrich presents the 15th Century Courts of Love
in Paris as one instance of an alternative jurisdiction drawn from
the diversities of the legal and literary past. Their textual
records are correspondingly mixed in genre, being in the form of
poems, narratives, plays, treaties and judicial decisions. More
broadly, these studies trace certain boundaries of modern law and
make up one of many forms of legal knowledge which escape today's
vision of a unitary law. The author believes that the unquesionable
faith in a unity law and its distance from person and emotion is
precisely what makes impossible the attention to the individual
that justice ultimately requires. Law in the Courts of Love shows
how the historical diversity of forms and procedures of law can
competently form the basis for critical revisions of contemporary
legal doctrine and professional practice. This book will be of
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of law and
literature, critical legal studies and legal history, or anyone
wishing to specialise in feminist legal theory.
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