Search Results for: Legal Reform In English Renaissance Literature

This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabet

Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existin

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range

Natural Law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages humankind to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance thought, w