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Author:

Peters, Julie Stone., author.

Title:

Law as performance : theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe / Julie Stone Peters.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Law--Europe--History.
Forensic oratory--Europe--History.
Performance art--Europe--History.
Law--Europe--History.--History.
Law and literature.
Droit--Europe--Histoire.
Droit--Histoire.
Droit et litterature.
Forensic oratory.
Law.
Law and literature.
Law--Language.
Performance art.
Europe.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Theatre, Theatrocracy, and the Politics of Pathos in the Athenian Lawcourt -- The Roman Advocate as Actor : Actio, Pronuntiatio, Prosopopoeia, and Persuasive Empathy in Cicero and Quintilian -- Courtroom Oratory, Forensic Delivery, and the Wayward Body in Medieval Rhetorical Theory -- Irreverent Performances, Heterodox Subjects, and the Unscripted Crowd from the Medieval Courtroom to the Stocks and Scaffold -- Performing Law in the Age of Theatre (c. 1500-1650) -- Legal Performance Education in Early Modern England -- Epilogue.

Series:

Law and literature

ISBN:

0192898493
9780192898494

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1287075581

LCCN:

2021949555

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)