1st Edition
Law in the Courts of Love Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences
By Peter Goodrich
Copyright 1996
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Law in the Courts of Love 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. Professor Goodrich presents the 15th Century Courts of Love in Paris as one instance of an alternative jurisdiction drawn from the... Read more
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;
Biography
Peter Goodrich
