{"product_id":"dead-voice-law-philosophy-and-fiction-in-the-iberian-middle-ages-9780812251869","title":"Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the thirteenth-century law code known as \u003ci\u003eSiete Partidas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConceived and promulgated by Alfonso X, King of Castile and León (r. 1252-1282), and created by a workshop of lawyers, legal scholars, and others, the set of books known as the \u003ci\u003eSiete Partidas\u003c\/i\u003e is both a work of legal theory and a legislative document designed to offer practical guidelines for the rendering of legal decisions and the management of good governance. Yet for all its practical reach, which extended over centuries and as far as the Spanish New World, it is an unusual text, argues Jesús R. Velasco, one that introduces canon and ecclesiastical law in the vernacular for explicitly secular purposes, that embraces intellectual disciplines and fictional techniques that normally lie outside legal science, and that cultivates rather than shuns perplexity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDead Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, Velasco analyzes the process of the \u003ci\u003eSiete Partidas\u003c\/i\u003e's codification and the ways in which different cultural, religious, and legal traditions that existed on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages were combined in its innovative construction. In particular, he pays special attention to the concept of dead voice, the art of \u003ci\u003ewriting\u003c\/i\u003e the law in the vernacular of its clients as well as in the language of legal professionals. He offers an integrated reading of the \u003ci\u003eSiete Partidas\u003c\/i\u003e, exploring such matters as the production, transmission, and control of the material text; the collaboration between sovereignty and jurisdiction to define the environment where law applies; a rare legislation of friendship; and the use of legislation to characterize the people as the soul of the kingdom, endowed with the responsibility of judging the stability of the political space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePresenting case studies beyond the \u003ci\u003eSiete Partidas\u003c\/i\u003e that demonstrate the incorporation of philosophical and fictional elements in the construction of law, Velasco reveals the legal processes that configured novel definitions of a subject and a people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812251869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJesus R. Velasco has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and Yale University and is author of Order and Chivalry: Knighthood and Citizenship in Late Medieval Castile, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40628662173811,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":98.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b170e856-3b62-498c-b6de-29cb6f3d86d1.jpg?v=1671116682","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/dead-voice-law-philosophy-and-fiction-in-the-iberian-middle-ages-9780812251869","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}