Law in the Courts of Love: Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences

ISBN-13: 9780415061650 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str.

Peter Goodrich;Goodrich Peter

Opis

This study traces the literary history and diversity of past legal systems. These minor jurisprudences range from the spiritual laws of the courts of conscience, to the code and judgements of love handed down by women's courts in medieval France. The 15th-century Courts of Love in Paris are presented as one instance of an alternative jurisdiction drawn from the diversities of the legal and literary past. Their textual records are correspondingly mixed in genre, being in the form of poems, narratives, plays, treatises and judicial decisions. More broadly, the studies in this text trace certain boundaries of modern law and make up one of many forms of legal knowledge which escape today's vision of a unitary law. The author argues that the unquestionable faith in a unity law and its distance from person and emotion is precisely what makes impossible the attention to the individual that justice ultimately requires. It is shown how the historical diversity of forms and procedures of law can competently form the basis for critical revisions of contemporary legal doctrine and professional practice.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Salem and Bizance; Chapter 2 Law in the Courts of Love; Chapter 3 Eating law; Chapter 4 Specula laws; Chapter 5 Of law and forgetting; Chapter 6 Transmission and law; Chapter 7 Fate as seduction; Chapter 8 Sleeping with the enemy;

O autorze

Peter Goodrich