Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta
Jennifer Jahner
Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta
Jennifer Jahner
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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.
Jennifer Jahner's Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta offers us a discursive history of a hundred years of English constitutional crisis, from the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) to the Battle of Lewes (1264)... Jahner's mastery of a complex historical narrative and her proficiency in the languages required for such a task (particularly Latin and Anglo-Norman) is impressive.
In this impressive book, Jennifer Jahner shows the compelling breadth of interpretations afforded by literary readings of English law during its period of critical formation. We can be grateful to this book for setting the standard for future such inquiries, and marking out so many paths of possibility.
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.
Jennifer Jahner's Literature and Law in the Era of Magna Carta offers us a discursive history of a hundred years of English constitutional crisis, from the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) to the Battle of Lewes (1264)... Jahner's mastery of a complex historical narrative and her proficiency in the languages required for such a task (particularly Latin and Anglo-Norman) is impressive.
In this impressive book, Jennifer Jahner shows the compelling breadth of interpretations afforded by literary readings of English law during its period of critical formation. We can be grateful to this book for setting the standard for future such inquiries, and marking out so many paths of possibility.
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.