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Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales (Hardcover)
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Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey
explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of
literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal
and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of
thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely
imaginative genre, one acutely responsive to nationalist concerns
and capable of reproducing them in sophisticated symbolic form. She
identifies narrative devices and tropes running throughout
successive revisions of legal texts that frame the body as an
analogy for unity and for the court, that equate maleness with
authority and just rule and femaleness with its opposite, and that
employ descriptions of internal and external landscapes as
metaphors for safety and peril, respectively. Historians disagree
about the context in which the lawbooks of medieval Wales should be
read and interpreted. Some accept the claim that they originated in
a council called by the tenth-century king Hywel Dda, while others
see them less as a repository of ancient custom than as the Welsh
response to the general resurgence in law taking place in western
Europe. Stacey builds on the latter approach to argue that whatever
their origins, the lawbooks functioned in the thirteenth century as
a critical venue for political commentary and debate on a wide
range of subjects, including the threat posed to native
independence and identity by the encroaching English; concerns
about violence and disunity among the native Welsh; abusive
behavior on the part of native officials; unwelcome changes in
native practice concerning marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and
fears about the increasing political and economic role of women.
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