Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

by Robin Chapman Stacey

In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely imaginative genre, one acutely responsive to nationalist concerns and capable of reproducing them in sophisticated symbolic form. She...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812250516
• ISBN13: 9780812250510
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"