Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 18)

Book info: Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England (Medieval Law and Its Practice, 18) (Hardcover, 312 pages) – Brill, 2015. Language: English.

Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England is a collection of eleven essays that explore what might be distinctly medieval and particularly English about legal personhood vis-à-vis the jurisdictional pluralism of late medieval England. Spanning the mid-thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, the essays in this volume draw on common law, statute law, canon law and natural law in order to investigate emerging and shifting definitions of personhood at the confluence of legal and literary imaginations. These essays contribute new insights into the workings of specific literary texts and provide us with a better grasp of the cultural work of legal argument within the histories of ethics, of the self, and of Eurocentrism.Contributors are Valerie Allen, Candace Barrington, Conrad van Dijk, Toy Fung Tung, Helen Hickey, Andrew Hope, Jana Mathews, Anthony Musson, Eve Salisbury, Jamie Taylor and R.F. Yeager. Editorial Reviews About the Author Andreea D. Boboc, Ph.D. (2006), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is Associate Professor of English at the Univesity of the Pacific. She has published articles on Chaucer, Gower, medieval drama, medieval law and literature, and pedagogy.