1st Edition
Equity in English Renaissance Literature Thomas More and Edmund Spenser
By Andrew Majeske
Copyright 2007
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intriguingly, first comes to light in literary texts rather than political or legal treatises. The book address the two principal literary works in which the transformation becomes apparent, Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's Faerie... Read more
Introduction Chapter One: Renaissance Equity in Classical Perspective Chapter Two: Equity (?????????) in Aristotle and Plato Chapter Three: Equity (Aequitas) in Thomas More's Utopia Chapter Four: Equity in Book V of Spenser's the Faerie Queene Afterword Bibliography Append ix A: Equity in Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Appendix B: Hugo Grotius: DE AEQUITATE, INDULGENTIA ET FACILITATE (a Latin-English facing page translation) Appendix C: Equity in Cicero's Verrine Oration Notes Bibliography Index
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Andrew J. Majeske
