Author: Kahn, Victoria Ann; & Hutson, Lorna; editors:
Title: Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (2001). orig. boards. 24x15cm,, ix,355 pages.. Spine edge rubbed. Minor wear. Good. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: D.H. Sacks "The Promise & the Contract inEarly Modern England"; B.J.Shapiro "Classical Rhetoric & the English Law of Evidence"; C. Freccerio "Archives in the Fiction: Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron"; P. Goodrich "Gay Science & Law"; A. Stewart "Bribery, Buggery & the Fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon"; L. Wilson "Ben Jonson & the Law of Contract"; Lorna Hutson "Not the King's Two Bodies: Reading the ' Body Politic' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2"; C. Jordan "Law & Political Reference in Montaigne's 'Apologie de Raimond Sebond'"; A. Patterson "Mens sine Affectu? Algernon Sidney's Ideal of Law"; V. Kahn "' The Duty to Love': Passion & Obligation in Early Modern Political Theory"; K. Eden "Intellectual Property & the 'Adages' of Erasmus: Coenobium vs. Ercto non cito"; J.O. Newman "'Race', Religion & the Law: Rhetorics of Sameness & Difference in the Work of Hugo Grotius"; J.P. Sommerville " Selden, Grotius, & the 17th-Century Intellectual Revolution in Moral & Political Theory".

Keywords: European Forensic Oratory, Legal History, Law Methodology, Rhetoric, Literary History, English Europe, Literature, Early Modern, Seventeenth Century