Search Results for: Law And Empire In English Renaissance Literature

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

The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature,

The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of theCompanion, 80 scholars come together to offer an originaland far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance l

Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.