{"product_id":"literature-and-law-in-the-era-of-magna-carta-9780198847724","title":"Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta","description":"The monograph series \u003cem\u003eOxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue -- in literature, theology, and\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science -- but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages\u003cbr\u003eand literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment;\u003cbr\u003etheories of aesthetics; medievalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta\u003c\/em\u003e traces processes of literary training and experimentation across the early history of the English common law, from its beginnings in the reign of Henry II to its tumultuous consolidations under the reigns of John and Henry III. The period from the\u003cbr\u003emid-twelfth through the thirteenth centuries witnessed an outpouring of innovative legal writing in England, from Magna Carta to the scores of statute books that preserved its provisions. An era of civil war and imperial fracture, it also proved a time of intensive self-definition, as communities\u003cbr\u003eboth lay and ecclesiastic used law to articulate collective identities. \u003cem\u003eLiterature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers the role that grammatical and rhetorical training played in shaping these arguments for legal self-definition. Beginning with the life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, the book\u003cbr\u003einterweaves the histories of literary pedagogy and English law, showing how foundational lessons in poetics helped generate both a language and theory of corporate autonomy. In this book, Geoffrey of Vinsauf's phenomenally popular Latin compositional handbook, the \u003cem\u003ePoetria nova\u003c\/em\u003e, finds its place\u003cbr\u003eagainst the diplomatic backdrop of the English Interdict, while Robert Grosseteste's Anglo-French devotional poem, the \u003cem\u003eChateau d'Amour\u003c\/em\u003e, is situated within the landscape of property law and Jewish-Christian interactions. Exploring a shared vocabulary across legal and grammatical fields, this book\u003cbr\u003eargues that poetic habits of thought proved central to constructing the narratives that medieval law tells about itself and that later scholars tell about the origins of English constitutionalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Jahner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198847724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Jahner, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor of English, Caltech\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJennifer Jahner is Assistant Professor of English at Caltech. She is co-editor, with Emily Steiner and Elizabeth Tyler, of \u003cem\u003eHistorical Writing in Britain and Ireland, 500-1550\u003c\/em\u003e, and publishes on the intersections of law, poetics, and pedagogy in the high and later Middle Ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40143905652851,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_00fa5741-9edb-4399-aed7-dac41e290e3b.jpg?v=1654608311","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/literature-and-law-in-the-era-of-magna-carta-9780198847724","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}