Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta

List of contents

• Introduction: The Poetics of Jurisdiction


• 1: The Grammar of Sacrifice: Becket, Learning, and Libertas


• 2: Classroom Historicisms: Interdict and the Poetria nova


• 3: Inventing Magna Carta


• 4: Jurisdictional Formalism: Robert Grosseteste and the Pastoral Model of Governance


• 5: Conjuring England: Crusade, Violence, and Communitas


• Coda: The Jurisdictions of Form


• Bibliography

About the author

Jennifer Jahner is Assistant Professor of English at Caltech. She is co-editor, with Emily Steiner and Elizabeth Tyler, of Historical Writing in Britain and Ireland, 500-1550, and publishes on the intersections of law, poetics, and pedagogy in the high and later Middle Ages.

Summary

This study of poetry and political thought in late twelfth- and thirteenth-century England explores how Latin, French, and Middle English political poetry and Latin grammar and rhetoric shaped ideas about constitutional governance, the common good, and just rule.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Jahner, Jennifer (Assistant Professor of English Jahner, Jahner Jennifer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198847724
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884772-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, LAW / Legal History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Archaeology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Legal History, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE