LEADER 04374nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910455422603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-42626-5 010 $a9786612426261 010 $a0-226-11625-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226116259 035 $a(CKB)1000000000799429 035 $a(EBL)471846 035 $a(OCoLC)489108251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11255173 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10394647 035 $a(PQKB)10546486 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471846 035 $a(DE-B1597)522650 035 $a(OCoLC)781260119 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226116259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471846 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343450 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL242626 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000799429 100 $a20070611d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA power to do justice$b[electronic resource] $ejurisdiction, English literature, and the rise of common law, 1509-1625 /$fBradin Cormack 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (423 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-11624-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-386) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Citations -- $tPrologue: A Power to Do Justice -- $tIntroduction: Literature and Jurisdiction -- $t1. "Shewe Us Your Mynde Then": Bureaucracy and Royal Privilege in Skelton's Magnyfycence -- $t2. "No More to Medle of the Matter": Thomas More, Equity, and the Claims of Jurisdiction -- $t3. Inconveniencing the Irish: Custom, Allegory, and the Common Law in Spenser's Ireland -- $t5. "To Stride a Limit": Imperium, Crisis, and Accommodation in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Pericles -- $t6. "To Law for Our Children": Norm and Jurisdiction in Webster, Rowley, and Heywood's Cure for a Cuckold -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aEnglish 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 the law's resemblance to the literary arts. A Power to Do Justice shows how Renaissance writers engaged the practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature's sense of itself. Reassessing the relation between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare, Cormack argues that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power, even as they clarify the forms of intensification that make literary space a reality. Tracking cultural responses to Renaissance jurisdictional thinking and legal centralization, A Power to Do Justice makes theoretical, literary-historical, and methodological contributions that set a new standard for law and the humanities and for the cultural history of early modern law and literature. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLaw and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aLaw and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLaw in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLaw in literature. 676 $a820.9/002 700 $aCormack$b Bradin$0896923 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455422603321 996 $aA power to do justice$92004139 997 $aUNINA