Law, History, Text

Writing Ironic Legal Histories

Ian Ward (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-74656-2 (ISBN)

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This book presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. It argues that to write any history is to tell a story. In doing so, it appreciates the place, not just of context and contingency in the history of law, but also humanity. Law is a human creation, for which reason it accommodates both reason and romance. Absent sensibility, it makes no sense. This book accordingly tells four stories about law. A first revisits a familiar institution, the English monarchy. A second reads history through the lens of a particular author, Daniel Defoe.A third writes a history of a few hundred yards of Bristol, eighteenth century England’s premier slave-port. A fourth investigates a peculiar, and hideous, fantasy. Engaging texts drawn from literature, philosophy and politics, as well as law, this work will appeal to any scholar or student interested not just in the past of law, but in its imagining and inscription.

Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK.

Introduction: Irony, Anecdote and Fashion; 1. The Stuff of Dreams; 2. Novel Judgments; 3. Two Days in Bristol; 4.The Laws of Witchery

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Transforming Legal Histories
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-74656-4 / 1032746564
ISBN-13	978-1-032-74656-2 / 9781032746562
Zustand	Neuware