16th century
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boundaries
british
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centralization
common law
court systems
cure for a cuckold
cymbeline
early modern
england
english
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equity
europe
european
formalization
france
great britain
imperium
improvisation
ingenuity
ireland
jurisdiction
justice
legal
legalism
literary
literature
litigation
magnyfycence
nationalism
pericles
professionalism
reformation
renaissance
thomas more
transformation
william shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780226061542
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2013
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century in response to the Reformation and the growing power of the legal profession. In "A Power to Do Justice", Bradin Cormack argues that jurisdictional encounters and crises made visible the law's resemblance to the literary arts, and that Renaissance writers engaged with the concept of jurisdiction to reflect both on the nature of law and on their own imaginative practice. Reassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, Cormack shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power.
Bradin Cormack is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago and coauthor of Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700.
