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  1. A power to do justice
    jurisdiction, English literature, and the rise of common law, 1509-1625
    Author: Cormack, Bradin
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226116247; 0226116255; 9780226116242; 9780226116259
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature / Early modern; Law and literature; Law in literature; Geschichte; English literature; Law and literature; Law and literature; Law in literature; Rechtsprechung <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 406 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-386) and index

    pt. 1. Centralization. "Shewe us your mynde then": bureaucracy and royal privilege in Skelton's Magnyfycence -- "No more to medle of the matter": Thomas More, equity, and the claims of jurisdiction -- pt. 2. Rationalization. Inconveniencing the Irish: custom, allegory, and the common law in Spenser's Ireland -- "If we be conquered": legal nationalism and the France of Shakespeare's English histories -- pt. 3. Formalization. "To stride a limit": imperium, crisis, and accommodation in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Pericles -- "To law for our children": norm and jurisdiction in Webster, Rowley, and Heywood's Cure for a Cuckold

    English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common law engaged with other court systems in England, when it encountered territories like Ireland and France, or when it confronted the ocean as a juridical space, the law revealed its qualities of ingenuity and improvisation. In other words, as Bradin Cormack argues, jurisdictional crisis made visible
  2. A power to do justice
    jurisdiction, English literature, and the rise of common law, 1509-1625
    Author: Cormack, Bradin
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226116242; 0226116247
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature; Law and literature; Law and literature; Law in literature; Rechtsprechung <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: xiii, 406 p.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-386) and index